Native American woman of Lima, Peru
Native American woman of Lima, Peru. She wears the manto (cape), saya (dress), embroidered apron, silk stockings and satin shoes. Femme de Lima. 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
14017154
Media ID
46699167
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4391px x 6610px
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Credit
©Florilegius/Mary Evans
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Archivist Auguste Wahlen Inca Jean-francois-nicolas Loumyer Lima Manners Manto Moeurs Native American Peru Petticoat Pseudonym Saya Woodblock Engraving
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