Moorish grisgris, water bottle and pouch, Senegal

String of gris-girs, leather water bottle and pouch made by the Moors, Senegal, 18th century. Grisgris, water bottle and pouch. Collier de gris-gris, outre des Maures, giberne. 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

Bushbaby Description Frederic Galago Geoffroy Lesser Manners Moorish Moors Pouch Sahara Senegal Senegalensis Senegambia Shoberl Stipple Villeneuve

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