Ronggeng or rongging, dancing girl of Java, Indonesia
Ronggeng or rongging, dancing girl of Java, Indonesia. She wears a silk tapih (petticoat), pemakak (corset) and sembong (sash). Adapted from a painting by William Daniell in Sir Thomas Raffles History of Java. Handcoloured woodcut bys 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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Archivist Auguste Wahlen Corset Indonesian Java Javan Jean-francois-nicolas Loumyer Manners Moeurs Petticoat Pseudonym Sarong William Daniell Woodblock Engraving
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