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IMAGE OF THE BLACK ARCHIVE
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Further details
Etching. Illustration for La Croix, Relation universelle, 3, 550. Anna Xinga, Queen of Angola, sacrificing prisoners of war and drinking their blood. The bones of one of her brothers is in the silver trunk.
Artist or creator
Meurs, Jacob van (1617/1618-1679) (after). Recut after the illustration in Olfert Dapper, Description de l'Afrique, Amsterdam 1686, p. 369.
Date
1688
Location
Book, text or document (source of image)
Contact
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