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Image Reference
barthmusgu
Source
Henry [Heinrich] Barth, Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa . . . . in the year 1849-1855 (Philadelphia, 1859), facing title page.
Comments
Village scene: chief in regalia with his horse in foreground; other villagers cooking, pounding grain with mortar and pestle. Musgu located south of Lake Chad in present-day Nigeria. Barth describes his arrival there in late 1851, p. 264 ff.
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