Library - Selected African Holdings
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Selected items with African Origination
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2022 English
This is a figure of a man, carved from dark wood, standing on a round base. The carved features include bulging eyes, a prominent forehead, and hair that starts on …
2022 English
This triangular wood mask is nearly flat and painted all over with a reddish paint. A narrow band of alternating black and white triangles is painted along the outer edge …
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A carved wooden male standing figure with short round base. The head is pointed with coiffure, scarification and facial features carved in low relief. The body is crudely articulated, probably …
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Black and white stereograph slide, #T234 in "Tour of the World" series, v. 5 and 6. Text on the back of the slide reads, "From our point of view, the …
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Black and white stereograph slide, #T232 from Tour of the World series, vol 5 and 6. Text on the back of the slide indicates that the image shows an irrigation …
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The round leather container with flat bottom is made in the shape of a royal African crown. The inward sloping sides are covered with fabric onto which cowrie shells are …
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The long staff is roughly wrought (hand-made) out of iron. There are two clusters of long, narrow cones attached along the shaft and another inverted cluster at the top, supporting …
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Carved wooden male figure kneels on short disk and supports a cylindrical hollow drum on his head and hands. Large eyes, a wide nose and closed mouth are carved on …
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Black and white stereograph slide, T238 from Tour of the World series, vol 5 and 6. Text on the back of the card reads: "Before us, in the wild and …
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Black and white photograph of the entrance to the temple, 1857. Luxor is the modern name of the city near the site of ancient Thebes on the east side of …
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Black and white photograph of a section of the wall of the temple at Dendera, Egypt. 1857. Dendera, or Dendara, was an important site from predynastic times on and is …
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Black and white photograph of the smaller of two temples on the site. 1857. Erment or Armant, known in ancient times as Hermonthis, is a site southwest of modern-day Luxor. …
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Black and white photograph showing the colossal statues flanking the entrance to the temple. 1857. Francis Frith, the photographer, was a world-wide traveler. He made a series of trips to …
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Black and white stereograph slide, #T 233 from Tour of the World, vol 5 and 6. Text on the back of the slide reads, "We are standing with our backs …
1899 English
1:5,600,000 Relief shown by contours and tints.
1897 French
1:21,000,000 Greenwich and Paris meridians.
1897 English
1:500,000 Title in upper margin: Madagascar.
1896 German
1:5,000,000 Relief shown by contours and spot heights.
1894 French
1:6,500,000 Shows the boundaries of the "Sphere des intérets.
1893 French
1:11,500,000 Relief shown by hachures. Paris and Ferro meridians.
1887 German
1:4,000,000 Relief shown by spot heights. Explorers' routes indicated by dashed lines and color.
1885 English
1:5,600,000 Relief shown by hachures and spot heights.
1879 French
1:2,300,000 Relief shown by hachures. Paris meridian.
1877 German
1:2,500,000 Relief show by hachures.
1870 German
1:12,500,000 Relief shown by hachures. Shows 13 routes Livingstone took between 1840-1869.
1868 English
1:850,000 Relief shown by hachures. Includes 4 inset maps: Reduced Map of the Transvaal Republic ... -- Plan of Rustenburg -- Plan of Pretoria -- Plan of Potchesfstroom.
1868 German
1:1,000,000 Relief shown by hachures. Route of British troops indicated in red.
1860 German
1:6,300,000 Relief shown by hachures and spot heights.
1856 German
1:1,550,000 Relief shown by hachures, depths shown by soundings. Includes 1 inset map (scale 1:360,000): Plan von Port Natal.
1764 French
Scale in fathoms Oriented with north to the lower right. Relief shown pictorially and by soundings.
English
This wooden mask is hollow and made to set atop a dancer's head. The face has almond-shaped eyes with round holes cut through the middle a wide, flattened nose, a …
English
A decorative bowl carved from a single piece of wood in the form of a kneeling woman holding a lidded bowl in the shape of a rooster. The woman has …