Young girl of Timbuktu, Mali. Although Muslim, she can go out without a veil, and wears a tall hat, Moorish costume of shawl, embroidered jacket, chemise and culottes. She wears earrings and necklace of amber, and silver anklets. Jeune fille de Timbouctou, Nigritie. Handcoloured woodcut by Henri Hendrickx and Edouard Vermocken 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 girl of Timbuktu, Mali. Although Muslim, she can go out without a veil, and wears a tall hat, Moorish costume of shawl, embroidered jacket, chemise and culottes. She wears earrings and necklace of amber, and silver anklets. Jeune fille de Timbouctou, Nigritie. Handcoloured woodcut by Henri Hendrickx and Edouard Vermocken 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.

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