Regular infantryman in the Algerian resistance army of Emir Abdelkader, in the struggle against French colonialism. In fez, jacket with hood, culottes, armed with sword and musket. Fantassin regulier dAbdel-Kader, Algerie. Handcoloured woodcut by 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.
Regular infantryman in the Algerian resistance army of Emir Abdelkader, in the struggle against French colonialism. In fez, jacket with hood, culottes, armed with sword and musket. Fantassin regulier dAbdel-Kader, Algerie. Handcoloured woodcut by 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.