Islamic Kanuri woman of Borno, Nigeria
Islamic Kanuri woman of Borno, Nigeria. She wears a piece of blue fabric which covers one shoulder and forms a split skirt to reveal a white toile petticoat. She wears her hair in braids under a bandana with metal cockade and holds a feather fan. Bournouaise. Handcoloured woodcut by 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
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