The Basutos : or, twenty-three years in South Africa
The Basutos, or Twenty-Three Years in South Africa is a 1861 London travel and missionary account by Eugène Arnaud Casalis, a French missionary, describing the Sotho people of southern Africa for a British readership. Its woodcut plates show Sotho objects such as fire-making tools, beaded ornaments and charms, a seated man with a bow and quiver, and beehive-style dwellings, offering designers angular engraved line work and detailed patterns of beadwork and woven textures.
