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Africans Back in the Day: Photos & Pictures Collection
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Illustration of the Ashanti Yam Festival, 1837
1819 illustration of the oldest house in Kumasi/Coomassee, an Ashanti City
Adum district of Kumasi, coloring version of an illustration from the same collection, presumably. The women appear to be selling goods, weaving fabric on a loom and tending a stall.
All following pictures can be traced back to the same collection of illustrations drawn around 1819, showing Ashanti houses and an Ashanti palace.
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Illustration of the Ashanti Yam Festival, 1837
1819 illustration of the oldest house in Kumasi/Coomassee, an Ashanti City
Adum district of Kumasi, coloring version of an illustration from the same collection, presumably. The women appear to be selling goods, weaving fabric on a loom and tending a stall.
All following pictures can be traced back to the same collection of illustrations drawn around 1819, showing Ashanti houses and an Ashanti palace.
always love their architect
I never understand why they don't try to modernized these styles into their major cities instead of trying to replicate boring american architecture
MischievousMonkey
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Interior of a Musgu village, engraving from Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa in the years 1849-1855, by Heinrich Barth (1821-1865)
On how these structures came to be: https://www.thecoli.com/posts/38162000/
Musgu houses, illustration taken from a soviet encyclopedia in 1926
This is an original 1930 photogravure of a Musgu village on the banks of the Logone River in French Equatorial Africa (now Chad), Africa.
Musgu Chief, 1868 illustration
Musgu chief in actual Cameroon, 1870 drawing
MischievousMonkey
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The Sao civilization, extinct today, and their descending groups produced fascinating art: bronze jewelry, iron objects, and earth figurines...
"The Sao Civilization was an ancient culture located in Central Africa, in an area which is today partly owned by the countries of Cameroon and Chad. They settled along the Chari River, which is located to the south of Lake Chad. The modern Kotoko people, an ethnic group located in Cameroon, Chad and Nigeria, claim ethnic descent from the ancient Sao. According to their tradition, the Sao were a race of giants that used to inhabit the area to the south of Lake Chad, between the northern regions of both Nigeria and Cameroon."
Lost in the Mists of Time: The Ancient Sao Civilization in Central Africa
Perhaps even more grandiose than their art, the city-fortresses they created so as to defend themselves from warring and slave raiding rivals were a complex network of heavily fortified villages designed to fend off invaders, with inside of them militarily organized units cooperating to guard and protect the population. https://www.thecoli.com/threads/fig...west-african-strategies.789002/#post-38162000
A Sao bracelet from the 14th century. Their sepulchres have yielded many copper alloy jewels and especially a large variety of bracelets.
Sao bell
Sao laddle
Sao bronze. Other bronzes in the following pictures.
The Horse and rider motif is imbued with strong symbolic significance amongst the Sao or Sakoto people of Chad. "A horseman denotes wealth and power and as such this large bronze sculpture represents prestige."
Sao clay figurines
Sao mask
"The Sao Civilization was an ancient culture located in Central Africa, in an area which is today partly owned by the countries of Cameroon and Chad. They settled along the Chari River, which is located to the south of Lake Chad. The modern Kotoko people, an ethnic group located in Cameroon, Chad and Nigeria, claim ethnic descent from the ancient Sao. According to their tradition, the Sao were a race of giants that used to inhabit the area to the south of Lake Chad, between the northern regions of both Nigeria and Cameroon."
Lost in the Mists of Time: The Ancient Sao Civilization in Central Africa
Perhaps even more grandiose than their art, the city-fortresses they created so as to defend themselves from warring and slave raiding rivals were a complex network of heavily fortified villages designed to fend off invaders, with inside of them militarily organized units cooperating to guard and protect the population. https://www.thecoli.com/threads/fig...west-african-strategies.789002/#post-38162000
A Sao bracelet from the 14th century. Their sepulchres have yielded many copper alloy jewels and especially a large variety of bracelets.
Sao bell
Sao laddle
Sao bronze. Other bronzes in the following pictures.
The Horse and rider motif is imbued with strong symbolic significance amongst the Sao or Sakoto people of Chad. "A horseman denotes wealth and power and as such this large bronze sculpture represents prestige."
Sao clay figurines
Sao mask
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mbewane
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Some of these figurines look like stuff I saw back in CAR. For some reason the article doesn't mention the country even though according to their own map the Sao were also in current CAR.
MischievousMonkey
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Good look. Same thing for the wikipedia entry. They seem to omit CAR for some odd reason. Are you aware of Kotoko people (some of descendants of Sao) being in CAR? Buduma? Musgum?
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Not that I know of, but I'll admit not knowing that much of all the names of various groups, because we have some main ethnic groups with some sub-divisions I'm not aware of. But given the fact they seem to be around Chad and Cameroun, two countries bordering CAR, I wouldn't be surprised.
MischievousMonkey
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Now it should be an exception, but it fits well in the thread imo:
It’s real disheartening to see hardly any info on CAR. I’d love to learn more about it but it’s so hard to come across material.
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Relatively small population, relatively few "intellectuals" and artists to spread knowledge and push this or that agenda, the history doesn't go that far back, not that much feeling of "national pride" or however you want to call it. From my pov. But there are some ressources, it's just that the country is of little interest to anyone outside the country, immediate region and small circles in France, and obviously the vast majority of those ressources will be in french.
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