Noble woman of Java, Indonesia
Noble woman of Java, Indonesia. She wears a dodot and sarong (skirt) in batik, sabuk (waistband), kemban (corset), gold necklace and bracelets. Dame Javanaise de la haute classe (Oceanie). Adapted from a painting by William Daniell in Sir Thomas Raffles History of Java, 1824.. Handcoloured woodcut by Lisbet after William Daniell 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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