Les Bassoutos; ou, Vingt-trois années de séjour et d'observations au sud de l'Afrique
Les Bassoutos is a 1859 Paris travel and mission account by Eugène Arnaud Casalis, a missionary who spent twenty-three years among the Basotho in southern Africa, written for a French readership. Its engravings include a still-life of Basotho objects such as pipes, a carved spoon, beadwork and a sheep-fat vessel, a hillside village scene, a seated musician playing a bow instrument, and a mountain landscape, offering a designer plain black-line ethnographic vignettes with dense hatching and clean cropped edges.
