Expedition Leaders, Bankes to Smith
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content: Historic Engravings collection
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content: 51 Items (Map Case M1 (folders 14-24), 9 3/4 x 14 in. (24.8 x 35.6 cm.) or smaller)
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content: circa early 1800s-circa 1904
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
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content: EEPA.2010-003, Series 3
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content: Archival materials
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content: Arranged alphabetically by expedition leader name.
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content: Series 3 includes 51 pages of engravings that were created primarily to document expeditions.  Illustrators and explorers represented include Thomas Bankes ("Bankes's New System of Geography"), John Barbot, Olfert Dapper, DeBry, Edward Cavendish Drake, [Des]marchais, Charles Theodore Middleton ("Middleton's Complete System of Geography"), George Henry Millar ("Millar's New Complete System of Geography"), Francis Moore, and Smith.  All of the engravings are undated, with the exception of Smith's, which were published on September 22, 1904.  

Locations depicted include Angola, Benin, Cairo, Ethiopia, the Kingdom of Congo, the Gold Coast, Guinea, the Kingdom of Loango, Sierra Leone, and Senegal.  Peoples and subjects portrayed include Don Daniel de Silva (Count of Sogno), the Jagas people, the King of Congo, the Khoikhoi, amuletes, musical instruments, weapons, clothing, animals, caravans, sepulchral monuments (Kings of Guinea), transportation, and rituals, among others.