Narrative of a journey to Musardu, the capital of the western Mandingoes
A travel narrative published in New York in 1870 by Benjamin J. K. Anderson, with an introduction by Edward Wilmot Blyden, recounting an expedition into the interior of Liberia to Musardu, capital of the western Mandingoes. The first picture shows a row of conical-roofed huts in a town, the second shows a line of elephants passing a village in the cotton fields of Dallakah, and the third is a folding route map of the journey with coastal place names, rivers and tribal territories marked. A designer might draw on the hut rows for dense repeated architectural patterns, the elephant procession for silhouette and frieze composition, and the map for hand-drawn cartographic linework.
