Costumes of the Tibbo people near the town of Gatrone, in the Fezzan region of the Sahara, North Africa. 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: 5869px × 5071px
Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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