3-056-538 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

People in a procession around a tethered bull, 1605. 'Le triumphe de la noblissement des gentilhommes', (The triumph of the nobility of gentlemen). In the foreground are naked men with spears and shields, and on the right a chief is brought in on a litter. The bull in the centre may be about to be sacrificed. From "Description et Recit Historial du riche Royaume d'or de Gunea [or Guinea], aultrement nomme´, la coste de l'or de Mina" by Pieter de Marees.