Browse Items (15 total)

  • Collection: Bridgens' West India Scenery

Negro Figuranti

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Depiction of thirteen slave men and women in different dance poses.

No. 1,2,5,6, Negro, 3 and 4 Indian Characters

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Illustration depicting portraits of four Negroes and two Indians. The Negro women at numbers one and six are adorned with headwraps and chains with cross pendants.

Sunday Morning in Town

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Illustration of a man and woman, both with umbrellas in hand, standing by a wall. A servant stands beside them and is carrying a chair on his head with a bible on it.

Negro Superstition

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A group of Africans who seem to be engaged in a ritual. There is a dead chicken on a table, fruits are hanging from a beam in the ceiling and one man seems to be choking another who is kneeling in front of him.

Stocks for hands and feet with bed and hand stocks. (From approved models)

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Illustrations of slaves in contraptions used for torture. At top: a man stands with both hands and feet placed between pieces of boards; below a woman sits on a bed with both her hands and feet between pieces of board.