Costumes of natives of Benguela, Angola, 1830. Two baptized natives in loinclothes, two idolatrous or independent natives. In the background a Portuguese man is carried in a tipoi or curtained sedan chair by slaves. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by after Jean-Baptiste Douville from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Florence, 1834.

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