About this work
The cannibal surrounded by the bodies of those he killed
Original catalogue wording
1. The cannibal surrounded by the bodies of those he killed | 4. The cannibal attempting to buy an ox from the farmer
Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 011. The cannibal surrounded by the bodies of those he killedPosition recorded by PEMM: top-left
How that man-eater ate the flesh of people
- 024. The cannibal attempting to buy an ox from the farmerPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom
How he found a farmer and he awaited him and he pursued him in order to eat him.
- Source date
- 19th
- Date evidence
- The PEMM project records its date evidence as “Date from JRB and SGD”.
- Shelfmark
- 1044
- Recorded provenance
- Addis Alem
- Place evidence
- Provenance wording supplied by the source catalogue.
- Catalogue source
- Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary (PEMM) project
- Source record
- paintings.csv, Painting ID 1275 (2 episode rows)
