Caption:
Ainu man, north Japan, wearing hat and decorated robe with laced shoes, fishing with a rod. A knife and tobacco pipe hang from his belt. Handcoloured woodcut by F. Pannemaker from Auguste Wahlen's "Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les Peuples du Monde," 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.