Young girl of Sokna, Fezzan, Kingdom of Tripoli (Libya)
Young girl of Sokna, Fezzan, Kingdom of Tripoli (Libya). The women of Sokna wear dresses of striped silk or tulle, silver earrings, bracelets and leg ornaments. Jeune fille Socknanaise. 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
14017130
Media ID
46680113
Size
4349px x 6865px
(5.2MB)
Credit
©Florilegius/Mary Evans
Source
T.S. and Duverger
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Archivist Auguste Wahlen Bracelets Duverger Fezzan Jean-francois-nicolas Loumyer Manners Moeurs Pseudonym Tulle Woodblock Engraving
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