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Image Reference
BEN9b
Source
Pierre Jacques Benoit, Voyage a Surinam . . . cent dessins pris sur nature par l'auteur (Bruxelles, 1839), plate xlix, fig. 99. (Copy in the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University)
Comments
Caption, "Un chef en voyage" (A Chief on a Trip). "When a chief travels in the interior, the author reports, he is followed by one or two young blacks, and he carries in his hand the symbol of his office, which is a long bamboo staff interwoven with large leaves, and topped with a pommel or really a sphere/globe, which is somewhat like the staffs carried by our drum majors" (p. 62, our translation).
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