Caption:
Circassian man in helmet, chain mail tunic over skirt, with plate metal armor on his forearms and shins, carrying a musket and curved sword. Handcoloured woodcut by Doms from Auguste Wahlen's "Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les Peuples du Monde," 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.