Native American gaucho from the region of Buenos-Ayres
Native American gaucho from the region of Buenos-Ayres, Argentina. In sugar-loaf hat, striped poncho, trousers and spurs, holding bolas or boleadoras to hunt on the pampas. Gaucho des environs de Buenos-Ayres. Handcoloured woodcut bys 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
14017152
Media ID
46693865
Size
4510px x 7041px
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Credit
©Florilegius/Mary Evans
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Archivist Auguste Wahlen Bolas Gaucho Jean-francois-nicolas Loumyer Lasso Manners Moeurs Native American Pampas Pseudonym South America Spurs Woodblock Engraving
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