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Ehem, ou canots, petits bateaux, et jenge-jenge ou ponts des Africains. [graphic].
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Title
Ehem, ou canots, petits bateaux, et jenge-jenge ou ponts des Africains. [graphic].
Title
Ehem, or little boats, and jenge-jenge or African bridges.
Publisher
[Leyden: s.n]
Publisher
NETHERLANDS. Leyden. 1729
Date
[1729?]
Physical Description
1 print: engraving; image 13 x 17cm. (5 x 6.5 in)
Description
On the bank of a river, three Africans build an ehem, or a "small boat." One breaks a piece of wood over his knee; another chops wood with an axe, and the third wades through the river with a bundle of wood on his back. The cloud of smoke rising from behind the boat suggests that the construction process has necessitated a fire. Behind them, a group of Africans paddle a finished ehem. In the background, a Jenge-Jenge, or an African bridge, stretches across the river. The bridge appears to consist of wooden planks, and each of its four corners is tied to a palm tree, so that two pairs of trees secure the bridge on either side. Ropes stretched between the trees also provide hand-rails. Two men are shown crossing the bridge; each carries a large bundle on his back.
Is part of
Aa, Pieter van der, 1659-1733. Galerie agreable du monde. Le tout mis en ordre & executé à Leide, par Pierre vander Aa [1729?].
Notes
Illustration in Pieter van der Aa's La galerie agreable du monde, où l'on voit et un grand nombre de cartes tres-exactes et de belles tailles-douces, les principaux empires, roiaumes, republiques, provinces, villes, bourgs et forteresses . . . (Le tout mis en ordre & executé à Leide, par Pierre vander Aa [1729?]).
In the absence of pagination, 41 has been written to the right of the set of images.
A closely related version of the engraving (mirror image) had been published earlier in John Ogilby's Africa: Being an Accurate Description of the Regions of Aegypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid (London, 1670), p. 454.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Africa: Images, Maps, and Geography.
Subject
Canoes -- Africa.
Boatbuilding -- Africa.
Bridges -- Africa.
Genre
Engravings -- 1720-1730.
Book illustrations -- 1720-1730.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | *U Gen Gal v 60-62 1729.F n.p. (41)
Accession number
1729.F
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