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Title: L'Afrique--[cartographic material] : dressée sur les observations de Mrs. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, et quelques autres & sur les memoires les plus recens
Subject: Africa--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Description: The map divides Africa into five major regions: "Barbarie" [northern Africa]; "Haute Guinée" [West African coast], "Nigritie" [central Africa], "Abissinie" [Abyssinia and the Red Sea coastal region] and "Pays des Cafres" [South and East Africa, including what is now Somalia]. De l'Isle has divided these regions into smaller areas of dominion. The Dutch settlement at the Cape of Good Hope is labelled "Fort des Hollandois". The map marks cities and geographical features particularly in West Africa, Abyssinia, the Congo, along the Zambezi River and in South Africa. Also visible on the map are the eastern edge of Brazil, southern Europe, Arabia, the western edge of Asia, Madagascar and the other islands surrounding the continent. Surrounding the cartouche are illustrations of three elephants, an ostrich, a spear-wielding man on a horse and another man wrestling with a crocodile., Relief shown pictorially., Projection not given. Coordinates on map rendered as 0°-360° east of Greenwich. Projection not given. Bar scales on map in French marine leagues, French common leagues, Spanish marine leagues and German common leagues.
Identifier: islandora:19664

Title: Fisherman with net
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, river, boat, fishing, San, indigenous, oar, net, fisherman, tradition, work , labour, food, San (African people)--Fishing--Botswana, Dugout canoes--Botswana, Okavango River Delta (Botswana)
Description: A 'River Bushman'. Man standing in a dugout canoe on a lake, using an oar to lift a fishing net from the water. Okavango Delta, Botswana.
Identifier: islandora:11835

Title: Discussing Resolution 435
Subject: Bushman, Southern Africa, meeting, village, interview, San, indigenous, San (African people)--Namibia, Indigenous peoples--Namibia, Political participation--Namibia, Public meetings--Namibia, Self-determination, National--Namibia--History, !Kung (African people)--Namibia, Namibia
Identifier: islandora:12177

Title: Carte physique et politique de l'Afrique / par A.H. Brue
Subject: Africa
Description: Hand colored. Shows all of Africa, Madagascar, the Arabian peninsula, bulge of Brazil. Regional outlines and some rivers hand colored; Prime meridian: Paris., Paris. J. Goujon et J. Andriveau
Identifier: islandora:25772

Title: Karte von Hoch Sudan, dem westlichen Nordrande von Hoch-Afrika, dem grössten Theile von Nord Guinea, und den Wassersystemen des Senegal, Gambia, Rio-Grande u. obern Niger
Subject: Africa, West--Maps, Sudan--Maps, , ,
Description: Map of Sudan, the north western edge of Saharan Africa , the greater part of northern Guinea , and the water systems of Senegal, Gambia, Rio Grande and upper Niger. The map indicates expedition routes taken by explores including Alexander Gordon Laing, James Watt and Matthew Winterbottom, Mungo Park, Ralph Durand, and Gaspard-Theodore Mollien. Scale approximately 1:5 000 000.
Identifier: islandora:30094

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