Description of Africa: The Court of the King of Loango, page 330

The Court of the King of Loango, page 330 ; The king is seated on a stepped and raised platform covered with a textile decorated with geometric patterns. Another textile is suspended on a frame from a pole behind the nobleman. An orchestra of drummers and of trumpeters can be seen over a fence. The aristocrat wears the skin of leopards, symbolic of noble status. A man bows before him presenting bracelets, pelts of leopards, and ivory tusks.