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[Funeral in Negroland] [graphic].
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Title
[Funeral in Negroland] [graphic].
Publisher
[London: s.n]
Publisher
ENG. London. 1670
Date
[1670]
Physical Description
1 print: wood engraving; image 13 x 16 cm. (5 x 6.25 in)
Description
The engraving shows a funeral rite, or fakotima, in Negroland. In this scene, the funeral orations have already ended, and the deceased has been propped up on a platform. According to Ogibly, when the deceased was a man (as is the case here), his friends put "a Bowe and Arrow into his hand, and arrayed him with his best Garment." Then, they offered presents, "one Needles, another a Kettle or Bason; the third a Garment; a fourth Dishes, and Earthen and Tin Cups." In this engraving, the kinsmen of the deceased play with bows and arrows in front of the corspe, as was customary.
Is part of
Ogilby, John, 1600-1676. Africa. London: Printed by Tho. Johnson, for the author, and are to be had at his house in White Fryers, M.DC.LXX (1670).
Notes
Illustration in John Ogilby's Africa: Being an Accurate Description of the Regions of Aegypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid: the Land of Negroes, Guinee, and Aethiopia, and Abyssines, with all the Adjacent Islands, either in the Mediterranean, Atlantick, Southern, or Oriental Sea, Belonging Thereunto (London: Printed by Tho. Johnson, for the author, and are to be had at his house in White Fryers, M.DC.LXX [1670]), p. 394.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Africa: Images, Maps, and Geography.
Genre
Engravings -- 1660-1670.
Book illustrations -- 1660-1670.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | *Wing O163 14.F p 394
Accession number
14.F
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Fels African Americana Image Project
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