细节
Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)
Three sketches at Abeokuta:
A thatched Hut (the exterior of an Ogboni Lodge at Abeokuta?)
extensively inscribed on the reverse,
pencil and watercolour
2 9/16 x 4in. (6.5 x 10.2cm.)
An open Hut
indistinctly inscribed 'open hut at(?)/Ogboni/Sheep/10 heads(?) Cowries', extensively inscribed on the reverse, pencil
2.9.16 x 4 1/8in. (6.5 x 10.5cm.)
The inscription would appear to relate to the price of admission to one of the Ogboni Lodges at Abeokuta. The Prince of Eruwan, replying to Burton's enquiry, names the fee 'twenty-two bags of cowries, two sheep and two goats ... my plans of sketching the interior of an Ogboni Lodge failed at Abeokuta' (Abeokuta, I, pp. 249-50)
The Ogboni were a form of elected local council, secretive and powerful, but inferior to the'Alake' or King
Peculiar fruit flourishing at Abbeokuta (sic.)
inscribed as title, pencil
4 1/8 x 2 13/16in. (10.4 x 7.1cm.)
'Two of the trees show a peculiar fruit. One had a brace of skulls with tenpenny nails through the forehead, and bits of brown skin, like dried fig-peel, still sticking in patches to the half-bleached bone. These had been women who, according to one account, had been executed for attempting to poison their master, a native Christian merchant. ... The Tyburn trees were distinguished by the clothes, probably the attire of the dead wrapped round the boles up to the branches. I amused myself with sketching the blossoms that grew on those boughs, and - the scene was quite Dantesque - I could not but wish that M. Doré had been there to borrow from it certain details' (Abeokuta, I,
pp. 254-5) (3)
Three sketches at Abeokuta:
A thatched Hut (the exterior of an Ogboni Lodge at Abeokuta?)
extensively inscribed on the reverse,
pencil and watercolour
2 9/16 x 4in. (6.5 x 10.2cm.)
An open Hut
indistinctly inscribed 'open hut at(?)/Ogboni/Sheep/10 heads(?) Cowries', extensively inscribed on the reverse, pencil
2.9.16 x 4 1/8in. (6.5 x 10.5cm.)
The inscription would appear to relate to the price of admission to one of the Ogboni Lodges at Abeokuta. The Prince of Eruwan, replying to Burton's enquiry, names the fee 'twenty-two bags of cowries, two sheep and two goats ... my plans of sketching the interior of an Ogboni Lodge failed at Abeokuta' (Abeokuta, I, pp. 249-50)
The Ogboni were a form of elected local council, secretive and powerful, but inferior to the'Alake' or King
Peculiar fruit flourishing at Abbeokuta (sic.)
inscribed as title, pencil
4 1/8 x 2 13/16in. (10.4 x 7.1cm.)
'Two of the trees show a peculiar fruit. One had a brace of skulls with tenpenny nails through the forehead, and bits of brown skin, like dried fig-peel, still sticking in patches to the half-bleached bone. These had been women who, according to one account, had been executed for attempting to poison their master, a native Christian merchant. ... The Tyburn trees were distinguished by the clothes, probably the attire of the dead wrapped round the boles up to the branches. I amused myself with sketching the blossoms that grew on those boughs, and - the scene was quite Dantesque - I could not but wish that M. Doré had been there to borrow from it certain details' (Abeokuta, I,
pp. 254-5) (3)