Nomadic Bedouin or Bedu man of Kordofan (Sudan) in hooded burnous, carrying a musket and square case. Arabe Bedouin, Afrique. Copied from Octavian Dalvimart's The Costume of Turkey, with the title Bedouin in the vicinity of Alexandria in quest of plunder. Handcoloured woodcut by H.H. after an illustration by Octavian Dalvimart 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.
Nomadic Bedouin or Bedu man of Kordofan (Sudan) in hooded burnous, carrying a musket and square case. Arabe Bedouin, Afrique. Copied from Octavian Dalvimart's The Costume of Turkey, with the title Bedouin in the vicinity of Alexandria in quest of plunder. Handcoloured woodcut by H.H. after an illustration by Octavian Dalvimart 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.