Carib family of Surinam with father smoking a ciger, holding a parrot and bow and arrow, and wife with baby in shawl and naked daughter. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige Völkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. Goedsche (1785-1863) was a German writer, bookseller and publisher in Meissen. Illustration adapted from Stedman's "Narrative of a Five Years Expedition," 1796.

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