Book Title: Beschrijvinghe ende Historische verhael vant Gout koninckrijck von Guinea, anders de Gout-custe de Mina genaemt leggende in het deel van Africa. ... Mitsgaders oock een cort verhael van de passagie die de schepen derwaerts nemen deur de Canarische Eylanden, voorby Capo de Verde, langs de Guste van Manigette, tot aen Capo de Trespunctas, voorts vande Revieren diemen versoect int verseylen vande Gout-custe, tot aende Capo Lopo Gonsalves, ... / Pieter de Marees.

Author: Marees, Pieter de.

Image Title: About the Manner in Which They Bewail Their Deceased

Description: This print shows the ceremonies that the Dutch trader and explorer Pieter de Maares (1770-1856 CE) observed when a community in the Gold Coast buried one of its dead. “A” is the grave in which the deceased will be buried; “B” shows the community’s ways of mourning; “C” is the ritual performed when the deceased has been buried; and “D”shows them going into the water in order to wash their bodies after climbing over the grave, after which they all go home to recreate.

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