Botocudo men of Brazil with wooden plugs in the lip and ear
Portraits of Botocudo men of Brazil with their distinctive wooden plugs in the lip and ear. Botocudos. Handcoloured woodcut by L. Markaert after Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied from Auguste Wahlen's Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les Peuples du Monde, (Manners, Customs and Costumes of all the People of the World) Librairie Historique-Artistique, Brussels, 1845. Wahlen was the pseudonym of Jean-Francois-Nicolas Loumyer (1801-1875), a writer and archivist with the Heraldic Department of Belgium
Picture No
14017157
Media ID
46680116
Size
4442px x 7162px
(5.8MB)
Credit
©Florilegius/Mary Evans
Source
Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwie
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