Caption:
Native (Inupiat) man of Sarichef Island, Alaska. He wears a hooded parka or anorak, trousers and boots of animal skin, holding a bow and arrow. His mouth has piercings of walrus-ivory rings. Naturel de lile Saritcheff. Handcoloured woodcut by A. Vangauberghe 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.