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Negre jouant du balafo [graphic].
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Title
Negre jouant du balafo [graphic].
Title
African playing the balafo
Publisher
[Paris: s.n]
Publisher
FRANCE. Paris. 1728
Date
[1728]
Physical Description
1 print: woodcut; image 13 x 7 cm. (5 x 2.5 in)
Description
Sitting in the doorway of a hut, an African man plays a wooden xylophone called the balafo (i.e. balo). A detail of the balafo, common in Senegambia, is shown at the top.
Is part of
Laban, Jean Baptiste, 1663-1738. Nouvelle relation de l'Afrique occidentale. Paris: Chez Pierre-François Giffart, rue Saint Jacques, à Sainte Therese, 1728.
Notes
Plate in Jean Baptiste Laban's Nouvelle relation de l'Afrique occidentale: contenant une description exacte du Senegal & des Pais situés entre le Cap-Blanc & la riviere de Serrelionne, jusqu'à plus de 300. lieues en avant dans les terres. L'histoire naturelle de ces pais, les differentes nations qui y sont répandues, leurs religions & leurs moeurs. Avec l'etat ancien et présent des compagnies qui y font le commerce (A Paris: Chez Pierre-François Giffart, rue Saint Jacques, à Sainte Therese, M.DCC.XXVIII [1728]), vol. 2, p. 332
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Africa: Images, Maps, and Geography.
Subject
Balo.
Musicians -- Senegal.
Musical instruments -- Senegal.
Geographic subject
Senegal -- Pictorial works -- 18th century.
Genre
Woodcuts -- 1720-1730.
Book illustrations -- 1720-1730.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | U Afri Labat 65539.D v 2 p 332
Accession number
65539.D
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Fels African Americana Image Project
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