Indian widow buried alive with her dead husband, as her unfortunate relatives and friends bring offerings, and musicians play a dirge. Handcolored copperplate engraving from G. T. Wilhelm's "Encyclopedia of Natural History: Mankind," Augsburg, 1804. Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian clergyman and naturalist known as the German Buffon.

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