Costumes of negro men and women of the Gold Coast (Ghana), Senegal and Gambia. Warrior in bodypainting and topknot, woman in feather skirt and hat, warrior with stick and scimitar. 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. Many of the illustrations were adapted from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" and others.

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Size: 5853px × 4958px
Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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