Sujet

Sakalave policeman, Madagascar, 1881. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Sakalave policeman, Madagascar, 1881. 'We are indebted to Mr. J. N. Stone, Staff-Surgeon R.N., for several sketches of scenes and figures observed during the visit of H.M.S. Ruby, corvette, under the command of Captain C. E. Foot, to the coast of the Mozambique Channel and to the Island of Madagascar, in October last year. Captain Foot, with a party of officers and seamen of the Ruby, landed at Morondova, on the south-western shore of the island, and went up to Mohabo, a town eighty miles inland, the capital of the province of Menabe, to visit the Hova Governor of that province...[Our illustration shows one of the] Sakalaves, members of the subject race. They are constables or policemen told off by the chiefs to attend white traders, to protect their goods and establishments...There was [a] member of the force whose sole garment was a sort of plaid kilt. Their hair is made up into curious tufts'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM25A42_476

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Droits gérés

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6,7Mo (512,7Ko) / 10,0cm x 16,8cm / 1179 x 1987 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Africa people black male job man men arts country body bodies law art guy costume occupation continent clothes British firearm weapon weapons gun guns feet foot African Madagascar dress traditional costume police war policeman policemen location century Britain profession skirt newspapers press barefoot clothing print concept madagascan police officer law enforcement APPAREL B&W full length full-length bare feet warfare engraved engraving 19th century black & white black and white B W weaponry nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News lungi musket the body traditional dress wood engraving ILN Malagasy newspaper portrait Unknown tradition dress 19th-century clothing & dress fashion & clothing The Illustrated London News John Neesom Stone Stone John Neesom John Neeson Stone Stone John Neeson