Browse Items (3762 total)

Sort by:

A marabout, or Muslim religious leader, writing an amulet for a Tukalor widow, P.D. Boilat, 1853, courtesy of the British Library.

Senegalese Muslim writing amulet.png

Qur'an board, West Sudan, 19th cenutry, courtesy of The Walters Art Museum

African_-_Qur'an_Board_-_Walters_61347.jpg

Portrait of Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (Job Ben Solomon), William Hoare, London, England, 1733, courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery.

Three reptilian amulets, Togo, courtesy of The Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture.

Portion of "Native of Hausa" sketch in The Natural History of Man, James C. Prichard, 1845, courtesy of Ghent University by way of Internet Archive.

Hausa Sketch.jpg

Portrait of Yarrow Mamout (Muhammad Yaro), Charles Wilson Peale, 1819, courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Handwritten chapter from the Qur'an, "Surat al-Nasr," Omar Ibn Said, ca. 1820s, courtesy of Documenting the American South, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

"Samuel Williams Views" in Indianapolis Recorder, Samuel Williams, Indianapolis, Indiana, August 28,1915.

Sam Williams View Indianapolis.png

"Samuel Williams' Views" in Oakland Sunshine, Samuel Williams, Oakland, California, September 14, 1915, accessed through Readex.

Williams' Views in Oakland Sunshine.jpg

Freedmen's Bank receipt for Samuel Williams, Charleston, South Carolina, May 2, 1871, courtesy of FamilySearch.

Sam William Bank Receipt.png

Output Formats

atom, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2

TEST