Young Malay woman carrying pales of water with a yoke. She is bare-breasted and wears a sarong. Jeune Malaise portant de leau. Oceanie. Adapted from an illustration by Jacques Arago of a young girl of Timor carrying water in Narrative of a Voyage around the world. Handcoloured woodcut by Lisbet after Arago 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.

Young Malay woman carrying pales of water with a yoke. She is bare-breasted and wears a sarong. Jeune Malaise portant de leau. Oceanie. Adapted from an illustration by Jacques Arago of a young girl of Timor carrying water in Narrative of a Voyage around the world. Handcoloured woodcut by Lisbet after Arago 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.

JACQUES ARAGO

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