₦airaland Forum

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Publication: 1894. "Dahomé nach den neuen französischen Forschungen. II." Globus: Illustrierte Zeitschrift für Länder- und Völkerkunde., Vol. LXVI, No. 18.

Original language: German

Caption translation: Fig. 15. Royal messenger stick from Porto Novo.

Caption: Fig. 15. Königlicher Botenstock von Porto Novo.

Text translation: "The stick in Dahomé comes to us as another kind of symbol (Fig. 15). It is used by highly ranked people, in particular by the King himself, as a personal substitute, insofar as it is carried around by a messenger or servant. In this way, the King would always send his commands to the coast through a chief who carried his stick; the latter would be treated in a similar honorable way as the King himself. On the other hand, denying the stick honor signifies the same thing as insulting its owner. If somebody comes into the city who has too many visits to pay and not enough time, he simply sends his stick around instead with a servant. In short, the stick plays a similar roll in Dahomé as the ring in the Middle Ages or Gessler's hat." (p. 283)

Illustration technique: studio engraving

Publication page: 284

Publication plate/figure: fig 15

Keywords:
• Dahomey (Country, region, place)
• Porto Novo (Country, region, place)
• Republic of Benin (Country, region, place)
• fish eating fish (Notable features)
• leopard (Notable features)
• regalia (Object name, type)
• royal emblem (Object name, type)
• kpo (Object name, type)
• recade (Object name, type)
• scepter (Object name, type)
• staff (Object name, type)
• Fon (Style, culture group)

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Publication: 1914. Staudinger, P. "Anzahl von Togefäßen aus Kano." Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, Vol. 1, No. 21 Feb., 1914.

Original language: German

Caption translation: No. 3 No. 2 No. 1

Text translation: “… Further, I present to you three ceremonial axes from Dahomey. One piece (no. 1 of the reproduction) I showed once earlier because it shows the depiction of a lion, which is extremely rare in Africa and actually only occurs in Dahomey. Blade, back-edge and handle are all made from brass on this axe. The spiral decoration is unique. Fig. 3 is made of iron and shows the typical fastenings. No. 2 appears as particularly notable. It is the ceremonial axe of a king from Dahomey (regrettably, his name can no longer be determined), unfortunately not in original but in a very good imitation. I owe the piece to the kindnesss of the earlier, highly deserved governor of Togo, Count Zech, who often provided me with important documents in my examination of beads. Count Zech received the reproduction of the axe as a gift during a visit to the French colony Dahomey. The king who owned the axe had a fish as a mascot! Some say it is a shark, but this is naturally not a shark since the mouth opening of a shark is different. Only the rows of small teeth and some fins indicate that it is a shark, a well known fish there. But the large square-ish teeth rather indicate a dogfish, and much of the form reminds one of a catfish. This is a stylized fish, a fable animal. The small discs ornamentation on the handle is very notable, which unfortunately cannot be seen clearly in the reproduction (no.2). In Dahomey, similar to the ceremonial axes there were also walking sticks of the chiefs that were inherited from family to family. Benue, Dahomey, and Aschanti are all somewhat similarly related areas in Africa with old influences and immigrants.” (pp. 178-180)

Illustration technique: b/w studio photograph

Publication page: 179

Publication plate/figure: figure

Keywords:
• Benin Republic (Country, region, place)
• Dahomey (Country, region, place)
• metal (Materials and techniques)
• wood (Materials and techniques)
• inlay (Notable features)
• knob (Notable features)
• lion (Notable features)
• animals (Notable features)
• fish (Notable features)
• insignia (Object name, type)
• royal emblem (Object name, type)
• scepter (Object name, type)
• ceremonial axe (Object name, type)
• recade (Object name, type)
• Fon (Style, culture group)

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Publication: 1906. Brossard, Charles and P. d'Horel. "Dahomey et Dépendances: Situation, Limites, Superficie, Population." Colonies françaises, par un groupe d'écrivains, d'explorateurs et de fonctionnaires.

Original language: French

Caption translation: Dépêche coloniale illustrée. Royal silver fetish.

Illustrator: , photo credit: Dépêche coloniale illustrée

Illustration technique: b/w studio photograph

Publication page: 298

Publication plate/figure: figure

Keywords:
• Benin Republic (Country, region, place)
• Dahomey (Country, region, place)
• silver ? (Materials and techniques)
• metal (Materials and techniques)
• bird (Notable features)
• hornbill (Notable features)
• insignia ? (Notable features)
• fringed canopy (Notable features)
• lion (Notable features)
• ornate finial (Notable features)
• asen ? (Object name, type)
• staff (Object name, type)
• regalia ? (Object name, type)
• Fon (Style, culture group)

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Publication: 1895. Dodds, General, et al. La France au Pays Noir: Campagne du Dahomey 1890-1892, Mission Maistre....

Original language: French

Caption translation: Snake fetish. Wooden sculpture.

Illustration technique: studio engraving

Publication page: 19

Publication plate/figure: figure

Keywords:
• Dahomey (Country, region, place)
• Republic of Benin (Country, region, place)
• carved wood (Materials and techniques)
• polychrome (Materials and techniques)
• hanging tongue (Notable features)
• no ears (Notable features)
• caryatid serpent (Notable features)
• open mouth (Notable features)
• tiny ears (Notable features)
• vessel (Object name, type)
• divination bowl (Object name, type)
• Fon (Style, culture group)

CAMEROONPRIDE: Off topic, do you know if French used to deport people from a country(x) to another one(y)?.because i feel like those fon from Dahomey are the same living in Cameroon.thanks

I've never heard of the French doing something like that during the colonial era, but I don't know that much about French colonial practices, honestly. The Fon in Dahomey/Benin Republic practiced the Vodun religion and founded the kingdom of Dahomey. What are the Fon in Cameroon known for and do they speak the same language as the Fon of Dahomey?

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Publication: 1920. Réal, Daniel. "Note Sur l'Art Dahoméen." L'Anthropologie, Vol. 30.

Original language: French

Caption translation: Fig. 1. [Left] Carved calabash (diameter = 26 centimeters) Gift of General Dodds. – Musée d’Ethnographie No. 36.695. Fig. 2. [Right] Carved calabash (diameter = 12 centimeters). Collection of Edouard Foa. – Musée d’Ethnographie No. 31.040.

Text translation: "In the Dahomey, the work on these fruits, which have become receptacles, is always very meticulous… By examining some of the pieces on display at the Musée d’Ethnographie, one is convinced of the perfection in the craftsmanship that the natives have been able to attain." (pg. 372)

Illustration technique: studio engraving

Publication page: 373

Publication plate/figure: figure

Keywords:
• Dahomey (Country, region, place)
• Republic of Benin (Country, region, place)
• calabash (Materials and techniques)
• incised (Materials and techniques)
• lizard (Notable features)
• bowl (Object name, type)
• container (Object name, type)
• Yoruba (Style, culture group)
• Fon (Style, culture group)

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Publication: 1895. d'Albéca, Alexandre L. La France au Dahomey.

Original language: French

Caption translation: Wooden combs

Illustrator: , unsigned

Illustration technique: studio engraving

Publication page: 159, bottom

Publication plate/figure: figure

Keywords:
• Dahomey (Country, region, place)
• Republic of Benin (Country, region, place)
• incised (Materials and techniques)
• wood (Materials and techniques)
• carved (Materials and techniques)
• decorative (Notable features)
• figurated handle (Notable features)
• head (Notable features)
• hair pick (Object name, type)
• comb (Object name, type)
• Fon ? (Style, culture group)

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Publication: 1895. Foà, Édouard. Le Dahomey : Histoire - Géographie - Moeurs - Coutumes - Commerce - Industrie. Expéditions Françaises (1891-1894).

Original language: French

Caption translation: INDUSTRIAL ARTS. 1. Weaver. 2. Bellows, Pincers, Hammer, Anvil. 3. Portrait Furnace. 4. Dagger. 5. Knife. 6. Headrest. 7. Coco, loaded with oil and almonds. 8. Comb. 9. Canoe. 10. Paddles. 11. Harpoons and Hooks.

Illustrator: A. Housselin, signed below top context engraving of plate. All drawings in text are by P. Merwart, Sirouy, Charpin and Lix after photographs and documents; artists of individual works are frequently not specified except in this case when Housselin has signed the work (he is not cited on title page as being one of the artists, however.)

Illustration technique: context engraving & drawing; after photograph

Publication page: facing 128

Publication plate/figure: plate II fig. 8

Keywords:
• Dahomey (Country, region, place)
• Republic of Benin (Country, region, place)
• wood (Materials and techniques)
• interlocking females (Notable features)
• figurated handle (Notable features)
• comb (Object name, type)
• Fon (Style, culture group)

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Publication: 1895. d'Albéca, Alexandre L. La France au Dahomey.

Original language: French

Caption translation: Dahomean Equipment.

Illustrator: Gudin, Faucher Gudin, Faucher, signed

Illustration technique: studio engraving

Publication page: 46

Publication plate/figure: figure

Keywords:
• Dahomey (Country, region, place)
• Republic of Benin (Country, region, place)
• oruboros (Notable features)
• serpent (Notable features)
• swallowing tail (Notable features)
• emblem (Object name, type)
• jewelry motif (Object name, type)
• Fon (Style, culture group)

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Publication: 1895. Foà, Édouard. Le Dahomey : Histoire - Géographie - Moeurs - Coutumes - Commerce - Industrie. Expéditions Françaises (1891-1894).

Original language: French

Caption translation: Behanzin and his family

Illustrator: P. Merwart, signed "FRON", semi-illegible, in LL and "PM" in LR

Illustration technique: field engraving

Publication page: 53

Publication plate/figure: plate; bottom

Keywords:
• Dahomey (Country, region, place)
• Republic of Benin (Country, region, place)
• brass (Materials and techniques)
• carved wood (Materials and techniques)
• Behanzin (Notable features)
• hand (Notable features)
• pipe (Notable features)
• cane (Object name, type)
• royal emblem (Object name, type)
• scepter (Object name, type)
• ceremonial staff (Object name, type)
• kpo (Object name, type)
• recade (Object name, type)
• regalia (Object name, type)
• Fon (Style, culture group)

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The Emir of Kano on the march. [Calvary in Nigeria.] (1911)

Image Details

Image Title
: The Emir of Kano on the march.

Alternate Title
: Calvary in Nigeria.

Additional Name(s)
: Morel, E. D. (Edmund Dene), 1873-1924 -- Author

Item/Page/Plate
: Facing page 134

Source
: Nigeria, its peoples and its problems.

Source Description
: xviii, 265 p. maps (part fold.), plates. 24 cm.

Location
: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture / General Research and Reference Division

Subjects and Names

Africa
Africans
Horseback riding
Kano (Nigeria)
Morel, E. D. (Edmund Dene)
Nigeria

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One of the gateways to Kano city, showing outer wall; Another of the entrances to the city. (1911)

Image Details

Image Title
: One of the gateways to Kano city, showing outer wall; Another of the entrances to the city.

Additional Name(s)
: Morel, E. D. (Edmund Dene), 1873-1924 -- Author

Item/Page/Plate
: Facing page 128

Source
: Nigeria, its peoples and its problems.

Source Description
: xviii, 265 p. maps (part fold.), plates. 24 cm.

Location
: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture / General Research and Reference Division

Subjects and Names

Africa
Doors & doorways
Kano (Nigeria)
Morel, E. D. (Edmund Dene)
Nigeria

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Inside Kano city. (1911)

Image Details

Image Title
: Inside Kano city.

Additional Name(s)
: Morel, E. D. (Edmund Dene), 1873-1924 -- Author

Item/Page/Plate
: Facing page 132

Source
: Nigeria, its peoples and its problems.

Source Description
: xviii, 265 p. maps (part fold.), plates. 24 cm.

Location
: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture / General Research and Reference Division

Subjects and Names

Africa
Kano (Nigeria)
Morel, E. D. (Edmund Dene)
Nigeria

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View of Kano from D'allah Hill; A Kano gate. ([1907?])

Image Details

Image Title
: View of Kano from D'allah Hill; A Kano gate.

Additional Name(s)
: Kumm, Hermann Karl Wilhelm, 1874-1930 -- Author

Specific Material Type
: Prints

Item/Page/Plate
: 35

Source
: The Sudan : a short compendium of facts and figures about the land of darkness / by H. Karl W. Kumm ; with an introduction by the late Mrs. Karl Kumm (nee Lucy Guinness).

Source Description
: xiv, 224 p., [45] leaves of plates : maps ; 23 cm.

Location
: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture / General Research and Reference Division

Subjects and Names

Gates
Kano (Nigeria)
Kumm, Hermann Karl Wilhelm
Views

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A view of a part of Kano city (inside the wall). (1911)

Image Details

Image Title
: A view of a part of Kano city (inside the wall).

Additional Name(s)
: Morel, E. D. (Edmund Dene), 1873-1924 -- Author

Item/Page/Plate
: Facing page 124

Source
: Nigeria, its peoples and its problems.

Source Description
: xviii, 265 p. maps (part fold.), plates. 24 cm.

Location
: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture / General Research and Reference Division

Subjects and Names

Africa
Kano (Nigeria)
Morel, E. D. (Edmund Dene)
Nigeria
Views

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Case a Igbobé. (1894)

Image Details

Image Title
: Case a Igbobé.

Additional Name(s)
: Alis, Harry, 1857-1895 -- Author

Item/Page/Plate
: p. 205

Source
: Nos africains : la Mission Crampel, la mission Dybowski, la mission Mizon, la mission Monteil, la mission Maistre, le Soudan, le Dahomey, les missions soudanaises, le seconde mission Mizon et les puissances européennes dans l'Afrique centrale, le Congo franais, Obock, le Soudan francais, la Côte d'Ivoire, le Sud-algérien, les cables sous-marins, quelques remarques / Harry Alis.

Location
: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture / General Research and Reference Division

Subjects and Names

Alis, Harry
Dwellings -- Africa
Nigeria
Nigerians
Thatched roof buildings -- Africa

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The Muata Cazembe (Emperor of the Lundas) (1861)

Image Details

Image Title
: The Muata Cazembe (Emperor of the Lundas)

Additional Name(s)
: Travassos Valdez, Francisco, 1825-1892 -- Author

Specific Material Type
: Printed text

Item/Page/Plate
: Frontispiece

Source
: Six years of a traveller's life in Western Africa. Vol I & II.

Source Description
: 2 v. illus., ports. 22 cm.

Location
: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture / Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division


Subjects and Names

Africans
Kings and rulers -- Africa
Travassos Valdez, Francisco

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Image Details

Image Title
: 1, 3, 5 et 6. Poteries faites par les Basongo Meno pour les Bangongo. -- 2 et 4. Poteries Bangongo. -- 7, 9, 13 à 17 et 19. Coupes Bambala. -- 8, 12 et 18. Hanapes à l'huile Bangongo. -- 20, 21, 22 et 25. Boîtes à fards Bambala. -- 23 et 24. Boîtes à fards Bangongo.

Additional Name(s)
: Torday, Emil, 1875-1931 -- Author

Item/Page/Plate
: Plate XXVI

Source
: Notes ethnographiques sur les peuples communément appelés Bakuba, ainsi que sur les peuplades apparentées, Les Bushongo / par E. Torday et T. A. Joyce ; aquarelles par Norman H. Hardy.

Source Description
: 290 p., 29, [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.

Location
: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture / General Research and Reference Division

Subjects and Names

Congo (Democratic Republic)
Containers
Cosmetics containers
Drinking vessels
Mbala (African people)
Mongo (African people)
Ngongo (African people)
Pottery, African
Torday, Emil

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Couteaux de guerre Ilondo. (1910)

Image Details

Image Title
: Couteaux de guerre Ilondo.

Additional Name(s)
: Torday, Emil, 1875-1931 -- Author

Item/Page/Plate
: p. 25

Source
: Notes ethnographiques sur les peuples communément appelés Bakuba, ainsi que sur les peuplades apparentées, Les Bushongo / par E. Torday et T. A. Joyce ; aquarelles par Norman H. Hardy.

Source Description
: 290 p., 29, [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.

Location
: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture / General Research and Reference Division

Subjects and Names

Arms & armament
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Knives
Torday, Emil

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Image Title
: 1, 2, 4 et 5. Boîtes à fards Bangendi. -- 2. Boîtes à fards Bangongo. -- 6 et 7. Hanapes à l'huile Bambala. -- 8, 9 et 10. Boîtes Bambala. -- 11 à 14. Poteaux de maison Bambala.

Additional Name(s)
: Torday, Emil, 1875-1931 -- Author

Item/Page/Plate
: Plate XXV

Source
: Notes ethnographiques sur les peuples communément appelés Bakuba, ainsi que sur les peuplades apparentées, Les Bushongo / par E. Torday et T. A. Joyce ; aquarelles par Norman H. Hardy.

Source Description
: 290 p., 29, [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.

Location
: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture / General Research and Reference Division

Subjects and Names

Architectural woodwork
Boxes
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Containers
Cosmetics containers
Mbala (African people)
Ngongo (African people)
Torday, Emil

Thanks Sybellah

@ Pleep,

So I watched the first half of that video by Mr. Pike that you posted.

There seem to be some serious errors in the first 30 minutes of the video.

1. "Min" does not seem to refer to the early Christian Jews alone but to all those who are seen as heretics by Jews. Since Jews believed/believe that they have a covenant with God that is binding on them, and since Christianity is necessarily/inherently incompatible with Judaism, of course observant Jews or those at the vanguard of maintaining the integrity of their religion (like Rabbis) would have seen a Christian Jew as a heretic and devised ways to alienate, ostracize, and degrade that person along with other Jewish heretics. It's hard to see how that equates to some sort of grand plot in the Talmud to degrade all Christians.

2. The part about Khazars becoming the Ashkenazim is incorrect. This video is obviously old and dated so the makers of this video can't have known this at the time, but modern genetic studies seem to show (at least to experts on human genetics, which I certainly am not) that the Ashkenazim, like the Sephardim, have Middle Eastern ancestry and that the two groups (Sephardim and Ashkenazim) have shared genes and derive from a common ancestor. I'm pretty sure Ashkenaz refers to Germany, and that the Ashkenazim have some eastern, central, and northern European ancestry/genes in addition their Middle Eastern/Semitic ancestry rather than North African and Iberian/southern European ancestry like the Sephardim. This is what distinguishes the two groups genetically/ethnically.

3. The part about the conflict between Jews and European Christians seems misleading to me - in the absence of evidence that the "Babylonian inspired moral perversity of Pharisaic Judaism" was what caused conflict between Jews and European Christians, I'd be more wiling to go with the idea that their occupations in the European Middle Ages, their roles in tax collecting on behalf of sovereigns and in carrying out other activities for rulers and princes that were seen as unpopular by the Christian masses, their roles in money lending, their rejection of Jesus Christ, and their status as self-isolating and mysterious (and therefore, possibly untrustworthy) foreigners and non-assimilated outsiders who could also be seen in certain contexts as "parasites," and "opportunists" was the real reason for the hatred/conflict between European Jews and Christians in the European Middle Ages. I'm also not convinced that European Christians were more morally upright or less s3xually perverse than the Jews that immigrated to their lands. It's something that would require actual evidence to prove.

4. The parts about the view of Jesus Christ (as a false prophet) are understandable, and not really anything extremist to me, although I think the attack on his mother by that one Rabbi quoted in the Talmud is petty and low class and the idea from another writer in the Talmud about how Jesus was being tormented also seemed petty and disgusting. The parts about the value of a gentile vs. the value of a Jew as expressed in the Talmud and the Zohar, were not much different from what I expected and had already come across elsewhere. I mentioned earlier on the thread that there are real claims of Jewish superiority to non-Jews expressed in Jewish religious books, but what I'm not sure about is how many modern Jews other than the most hard core orthodox Jews and their Rabbis actually believe in and adhere to those centuries old passages today. If there were overwhelming proof that observant Jews mostly support those kinds of teachings, then that might be a problem as far as how I view them. But I haven't seen the evidence for that if such evidence actually exists.

5. The part about Amalek is wrong as well. Amalek does not seem to refer to all Gentiles but to the name (or at least the Jewish name) for one specific Middle Eastern ethnic group who attacked the Jews when the Jews were wandering around in the desert and were at their weakest. Later, the Jews took their revenge on the Amalekites and killed many of them, possibly wiping out most of them. When the feud with the Amalekites was still fresh on their minds or in their memories/traditions, Jewish scribes wrote some stuff claiming that God commands them to completely exterminate all the Amalekites and their remaining descendants wherever they might be found, and I think this is what the maker of that video is trying to use to mean something else about some much larger plot to exterminate all Gentiles.

6. What part of the Zohar or the Kabbalah in general says that the Jewish messiah is supposed to help the Jews rule over the world? I was under the impression that the Jewish messiah was just whoever would save the Jews (from something, although I don't know what exactly) and then bring about the "world to come" which in their religion is some sort of paradise on earth for all the righteous people on earth.

7. From the 23:00 minute mark onward it seems to blame Jews for the French revolution by alluding briefly to Adam Weishaupt's Illuminati, St. Germain (who they assume was a Jew, although his real origins are not known definitively by anyone), and the activities of the charlatan Joseph Balsamo in France. These kind of conspiracy theories about the secret role of some prominent Jews in the French revolution have been around for a while and still haven't gained any traction - probably because they don't have much going for them. I would be interested in seeing what actual supporting evidence there is for this claim/insinuation though.

Then it seems to move onto the idea of Jews being at the forefront of socialism and communism and states that Jewish communists in league with international German Jewish and American Jewish bankers conspired to overthrow Tsarist Russia and impose Bolshevism on the Russians as part of a larger agenda for world domination and the destruction of Western societies. I don't know much about Russian history, socialist history, communist history, Jewish bankers and financiers, etc. so I won't comment on that, but I'll admit that I do think it's likely that Jews were overrepresented in 19th and 20th century socialist and communist movements in Europe, just from some of what I've read about those movements.

8. I didn't watch past the 30 minute mark. What is the other half of the video about?

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Mandara musicians. (1826)

Image Details

Image Title
: Mandara musicians.

Creator
: Finden, Edward Francis, 1791-1857 -- Engraver

Additional Name(s)
: Denham, Dixon, 1786-1828 -- Author

Specific Material Type
: Printed text

Item/Page/Plate
: opp. pg. 123

Source
: Narrative of travels and discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824. Vol I & II.

Location
: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture / Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division

Subjects and Names

Africa
Africa, West
Africans
Denham, Dixon
Finden, Edward Francis
Musicians -- African
Wandala (African people)


(Mandara is in Northern Cameroon. These two men seem to be playing some type of flute in this illustration.)

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Kong. L'une des cinq mosquées. ([1902?])

Image Details

Image Title
: Kong. L'une des cinq mosquées.

Creator
: Monnier, M. Marcel -- Photographer

Additional Name(s)
: Petit, Maxime, 1858-1939 -- Author

Item/Page/Plate
: 722

Source
: Les colonies françaises; petite encyclopédie coloniale publiée sous la direction de M. Maxime Petit; avec la collaboration de MM.: J. Alix, A. Baudrillart, Augustin Bernard, Fr. Bernard, E. Blochet, C. Bruno. / Les colonies francaises; petite encyclopedie coloniale ... Vol. 1.

Source Description
: 2 v. illus. ports., maps. 21 cm.

Location
: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture / General Research and Reference Division

Subjects and Names

Côte d'Ivoire
France -- Colonies
Monnier, M. Marcel
Mosques
Muslims
Petit, Maxime


(This is an image of more Sudano-Sahelian architecture. This image is from Kong, in Côte d'Ivoire. Kong was the capital of a kingdom of the same name in northern Côte d'Ivoire.)

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Ségou. ([1902?])

Image Details

Image Title
: Ségou.

Additional Name(s)
: Petit, Maxime, 1858-1939 -- Author

Item/Page/Plate
: Facing page 638

Source
: Les colonies françaises; petite encyclopédie coloniale publiée sous la direction de M. Maxime Petit; avec la collaboration de MM.: J. Alix, A. Baudrillart, Augustin Bernard, Fr. Bernard, E. Blochet, C. Bruno. / Les colonies francaises; petite encyclopedie coloniale ... Vol. 1.

Source Description
: 2 v. illus. ports., maps. 21 cm.

Location
: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture / General Research and Reference Division

AmunRaOlodumare: Nice thread PhysicsQED. Here's a few more (they may be some duplicates).

Thanks.

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Segu: The ancient palace of Ahmadou transformed into a fort (exterior). (1897)

Image Details

Image Title
: Segu: The ancient palace of Ahmadou transformed into a fort (exterior).

Additional Name(s)
: Dubois, Félix, b. 1862 -- Author

Item/Page/Plate
: p. 68

Source
: Timbuctoo the mysterious / by Felix Dubois; translated from the French by Diana White ...

Source Description
: xi, 377 p. : ill., maps, plans ; 23 cm.

Location
: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture / General Research and Reference Division

Subjects and Names

Castles & palaces
Dubois, Félix
Forts & fortifications -- Africa
Ségou (Mali)

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Griots. -- Instruments de tam-tam (Bambara). (1901)

Image Details

Image Title
: Griots. -- Instruments de tam-tam (Bambara).

Item/Page/Plate
: p. 182

Source
: Haut-Sénégal et Moyen-Niger : Kita et Segou / par A. Pérignon.

Source Description
: 208 p. : ill., map. ; 26 cm.

Location
: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture / General Research and Reference Division

Subjects and Names

Bambara (African people)
Griots
Malians
Musical instruments -- Africa
Musicians -- African
Ségou (Mali : Région)
Tom-tom
West Africans

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Image Title
: Det kongelige Palads i Segu.

Additional Name(s)
: Bruun, Daniel, 1856-1931 -- Author

Specific Material Type
: Prints

Item/Page/Plate
: 69

Source
: Afrika; dets opdagelse, erobring og kolonisation. Populaert frematillet.

Source Description
: 2 v. in 1 illus., maps (part fold.) 26 cm.

Location
: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture / General Research and Reference Division


(This is an image of part of the palace in Segou, in southern Mali. Segou was the capital of the Bambara empire until its capture by Umar Tall in 1861. This image is from 1901.)

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Image Title
: A Chief in his state canoe, Bonny River, Niger Delta.

Additional Name(s)
: Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir, 1858-1927 -- Author

Specific Material Type
: Prints

Item/Page/Plate
: 316

Source
: Britain across the seas: Africa; a history and description of the British Empire in Africa.

Source Description
: xix, 429 p. illus. (incl. ports.) 7 maps. 24cm.

Location
: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture / General Research and Reference Division

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Image Title
: War Implements. Knives, Scimitars, Bows, Spears and Arrows, War Horn, Canoe Paddle.

Specific Material Type
: Printed text

Item/Page/Plate
: opp. Pg. 272

Source
: Glimpses of Africa, West and Southwest coast ; containing the author's impressions and observations during a voyage of six thousand miles from Sierra Leone to St. Paul de Loanda and return, including the Rio del Ray and Cameroons rivers, and the Congo River, from its mouth to Matadi.

Location
: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture / Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division

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Image Title
: Abdel Gassam, a Fellatah from Timboctoo. A Bornouese, on a journey.

Creator
: Finden, Edward Francis, 1791-1857 -- Engraver

Additional Name(s)
: Denham, Dixon, 1786-1828 -- Author

Specific Material Type
: Printed text

Item/Page/Plate
: opp. pg. 177

Source
: Narrative of travels and discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824. Vol I & II.

Location
: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture / Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division


(The "Fellatah" (Fulani) man is on the left, and the "Bornouese" (Kanuri) is on the right)