Details
Title Females hoeing [graphic].
Publisher [London: s.n]
Publisher ENGLAND. London. 1865
Date [1865]
Physical Description 1 print: wood engraving; image 8 x 10 cm. (3.25 x 4 in)
Description Engraving accompanies Chapter XXIV of Livingstone's travel narrative. It shows four women working in the Ngabi district: one carries a basket on her head, while three others (including one woman with a child on her back) till the soil with hoes."The only instrument of husbandry here," Livingstone noted, "is the short-handled hoe; and about Tette the labour of tilling the soil, as represented in the woodcut, is performed entirely by female slaves." (p. 499)
Is part of Livingston, David, 1813-1873. Narrative of an expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries. London: John Murray, 1865.
Notes Illustration in David Livingstone's Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and its Tributaries: and of the Discovery of the Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 (London: John Murray, 1865), p. 499.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Africa: Images, Maps, and Geography.
Subject Women agricultural laborers -- Africa, Southern.
Hoes.
Geographic subject Africa, Southern -- Pictorial works -- 19th century.
Genre Engravings -- 1860-1870.
Book illustrations -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | U Afri Livin 16307.O p 499
Accession number 16307.O