Warrior chief of the Kingdom of Congo, Africa. With feathers in his hair, animal-skin skirt, armed with ax, bow, quiver of arrows, dagger in collar. The kingdom of Kongo covered parts of modern Angola, Gabon and Congo. Chef des Guerriers de Congo. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Laroque after a design by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur from his Encyclopedie des voyages, Encyclopedia of Voyages, Bordeaux, France, 1792.

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