Caption:
Inuit woman with facial tattoos, Mackenzie River, Yukon, Canada. She wears a parka or anorak made of seal skin, trousers and boots of animal skin. Femme Esquimaux. Handcoloured woodcut by 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.