Caption:
Reward for bravery among the Mougeare (descendants of Portuguese and Arabs) nomadic people of the Sahara. A sheik uses scissors to cut a tuft of hair from a brave youth in front of men armed with muskets and sabres. Recompense du courage chez les peuples du Sahara. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from A. Antoine de Saint-Gervaiss Album des Peuples, ou Collection de Tableaux, Album of Peoples, or Collection of Paintings, J. Langlume et Peltier, Paris, 1835. Reprinted from Moeurs et coutumes des Peuples, Hocquart, 1811.