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Included in Chapter XV, "Arts et Industrie," the engraving shows an African weaver with her loom. A similar loom appears in the frontispiece for the London Yearly Meeting's Report of the committee managing a fund raised by some friends for the purpose of promoting African instruction (London, 1822).; Illustration in René Geoffroy de Villeneuve's L'Afrique, ou Histoire, meours, usages et coutumes des africains: Le Sénégal (Paris: Nepveu, libraire, passage des Panoramas, no. 26, 1814), vol. 4, p. 180.

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Keywords

  1. Africa, West
  2. Book Illustrations
  3. Government
  4. Government Publication
  5. Looms
  6. Pictorial Works
  7. Senegal
  8. Weaving
  9. Woodcuts

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