Mixed-race or mulatto woman of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. She wears a white chemise, striped silk skirt, bandana as she lounges on cushions. Jeune fille mulatre. Handcoloured woodcut by T.S. 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.
Mixed-race or mulatto woman of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. She wears a white chemise, striped silk skirt, bandana as she lounges on cushions. Jeune fille mulatre. Handcoloured woodcut by T.S. 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.