Munga archer in the Sheikh of Bornu's army (Bomo, Nigeria). With plumed cap, red loincloth and sandals, armed with bow, arrow and quiver. Adapted from an illustration of a Munga bowman in the service of the Sheikh of Bornou by Dixon Denham and Hugh Clapperton, Travels in Northern and Central Africa. Guerrier Mangowien. (Mislabeled Port du prince Guillaume.) Handcoloured stipple engraving on steel by Choubard after an illustration by Leopold Massard from Collection de portraits et costumes des differens peuples qui habitent les cinq parties du monde, Armand-Aubree, Paris, 1837.

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