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Contributor Aa, Pieter van der, 1659-1733
Title Dracht en wapening der Hottentots = Les armes et habits des Hottentots, aupres le Cap de Bonne Esperance. [graphic] / A Leide, Chez Pierre vander Aa.
Title Dress and weapons of the Hottentots = The weapons and dress of the Hottentots, near the Cape of Good Hope.
Publisher [Leyden: s.n]
Publisher NETHERLANDS. Leyden. 1729
Date [1729?]
Physical Description 1 print: engraving; image 25 x 33 cm. (9.75 x 13.5 in)
Description Set in a lush landscape near the Cape of Good Hope, the illustration features a group of Khoikoin, also known (somewhat pejoratively) as the Hottentots. As the title suggests, the engraving shows their weapons and manner of dress. Both the men and the women wear loin-cloths and shawls bordered with fur. A few wear bands around their lower legs. Some of the Khoikoin carry spears; the central figure is also shown with a bow and a quiver.
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 Double-page plate 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?]), n.p.
In the absence of pagination, 57 has been written next to the plate.
Seemingly, van der Aa copied from an unsigned engraving published in John Ogilby's Africa: Being an Accurate Description of the Regions of Aegypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid (London: 1670) under the title "Dracht en Wapening der Hottentots / The Hottentots Clothing and Their Arms."
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Africa: Images, Maps, and Geography.
Subject Khoikhoi (African people) -- Clothing & dress.
Arms & armament -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope.
Geographic subject Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Pictorial works -- 18th century.
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. (57)
Accession number 1729.F