Details
Title Negresse etudiant le jeu de Ouri [graphic].
Title African woman learning to play Ouri
Publisher [Paris: s.n]
Publisher FRANCE. Paris. 1814
Date [1814]
Physical Description 1 print: woodcut; overall 13 x 8 cm. (5.25 x 3 in)
Description Included in Chapter XVII, "Chasse, Pêche, Musique et Divertissemens," the engraving shows a young African woman learning to play Ouri, a popular "pit and pebble" game known throughout Africa under several names, including Oware and mancaga. In the accompanying text, Villeneuve wrote that Ouri (and similar games) were too complicated to be described simply. He noted, however, that girls usually learned to play the game around the age of ten.
Is part of Villeneuve, René Geoffroy de (R.G.V.), 1767-1831. L'Afrique, ou histoire, moeurs, usages et coutumes des africains. Paris: Nepveu, libraire, passage des Panoramas, no. 26, 1814.
Notes Illustration in René Geoffroy de Villeneuve's L'Afrique, ou Histoire, moeurs, usages et coutumes des africains: Le Sénégal (Paris: Nepveu, libraire, passage des Panoramas, no. 26, 1814), vol. 4, p. 205.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Africa: Images, Maps, and Geography.
Subject Games -- Senegal.
Blacks -- Senegal.
Geographic subject Africa, West -- Pictorial works -- 19th century.
Genre Woodcuts -- 1810-1820.
Book illustrations -- 1810-1820.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | U Afri R.G.V. 65954.D v 4 p 205
Accession number 65954.D