Mixed-race man with torch, Lima, Peru

Mixed-race man or mestizo with torch or candle, Lima, Peru. He wears a straw hat, poncho, jacket, short pants and sandals, White and Native American descent. Metis. Handcoloured woodcut by L. Markaert and T.S. 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

Archivist Auguste Wahlen Jean-francois-nicolas Loumyer Lima Manners Mestizo Metis Moeurs Peru Poncho Pseudonym Sandals Short Pants Straw Hat Woodblock Engraving

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