San warrior from South Africa
San warrior from South Africa. He wears an animal skin cape, an ostrich feather in his hair, and carries a shield and three spears or assegai. Guerrier Cafre. Handcoloured woodcut by T.S. and Duverger 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
14017126
Media ID
46699067
Size
4392px x 6811px
(5.4MB)
Credit
©Florilegius/Mary Evans
Source
T.S. and Duverger
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