Woman's hairstyle and jewelry, Senegambia, 18th century

Woman's braided hairstyle and jewelry, Senegambia, 18th century. Headress and ornaments of the negro women. Coiffure des negresses. 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

Clerics Description Frederic Geoffroy Manners Moorish Moors Muslims Sahara Senegal Senegambia Shoberl Stipple Villeneuve

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