Interior of Kitchen, Sierra Leone, 1856

Description

A kitchen is a most important appendage to the domestic establishment of the Africans (p. 436). The kitchen, described in detail on p. 436, is constructed of wattle-and-daub. Utensils include iron pots, stones on which the pots rest, bellows, pottery, basketry; poultry are also shown. See also illustration Exterior of Kitchen, Sierra Leone, image reference ILN435b.

Source

The Illustrated London News (Oct. 25, 1856), vol. 29, p. 435.

Language

English

Rights

Image is in the public domain. Metadata is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.

Identifier

ILN435c

Spatial Coverage

Africa--Rivers

Item sets

Pre-Colonial Africa: Society, Polity, Culture

Citation

"Interior of Kitchen, Sierra Leone, 1856", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed September 30, 2023, http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/2736
A kitchen is a most important appendage to the domestic establishment of the Africans (p. 436). The kitchen, described in detail on p. 436, is constructed of wattle-and-daub. Utensils include iron pots, stones on which the pots rest, bellows, pottery, basketry; poultry are also shown. See also illustration Exterior of Kitchen, Sierra Leone, image reference ILN435b.
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