A Talbe, Islamic priest, Senegambia, 18th century

A Talbe, Islamic priest, Senegambia, 18th century. He wears a turban, strings and armbands, and smokes a pipe. Other men pray behind him. A Talbe, or Moorish Priest in his ordinary dress. 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

Description Enslaved Flee Frederic Geoffroy Manners Moors Negro Sahara Senegal Senegambia Shoberl Stipple Surprising Villagers Villeneuve

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