Mandinka man playing a balafon with sticks

Mandinka man playing a balafon or gourd xylophone with sticks. In the background, men sit outside a hut or granary near a river. A negro playing on the balafo. After Rene Claude Geoffroy de Villeneuve's l'Afrique, Paris, 1814. Handcoloured 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

Caravan Description Encampment Frederic Geoffroy Mandinka Manners Moorish Moors Nomad Sahara Senegambia Shoberl Sticks Stipple Tribes Villeneuve Woven

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