Encampment or douar of a nomadic Islamic tribe, Senegambia, 18th century. The tents are made of woven camel hair. A Moorish camp or Adouar, with the tent of a chief. After Rene Claude Geoffroy de Villeneuve’s L’Afrique, Paris, 1814. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving from Frederic Shoberl’s The World in Miniature: Africa, A description of the manners and customs Moors of the Sahara and of the Negro Nations, R. Ackermann, England, 1821.

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