Young unmarried Hausa woman of Kano, North West Nigeria. Before marriage, young women wear a blue and white striped apron tied with red wool bands. She wears a glass necklace and earrings. Both men and women rouge their teeth and lips with tobacco (or goerjie) and dye their arms and legs blue. Jeune fille de Kano (Haoussa oriental). Handcoloured woodcut from Auguste Wahlen's Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les Peuples du Monde, (Manners, Customs and Costumes of all the People of the World) Librairie Historique-Artistique, Brussels, 1845.
Young unmarried Hausa woman of Kano, North West Nigeria. Before marriage, young women wear a blue and white striped apron tied with red wool bands. She wears a glass necklace and earrings. Both men and women rouge their teeth and lips with tobacco (or goerjie) and dye their arms and legs blue. Jeune fille de Kano (Haoussa oriental). Jusqu'a l'epoque de leur mariage, les jeunes gens des deux sexes, portent par decence un long tablier bleu et blanc,avec une bordure dentelee d'etoffe de laine rouge. Les jeunes filles ont des colliers de verroterie. Les deux sexes se colorent les dents et les levres avec les fleurs de goerjie ou de tabac, ce qui leur donne une teinte rouge de sang. Ils se teignent en blue les bras et les jambes. Handcoloured woodcut by from Auguste Wahlen's Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les Peuples du Monde, (Manners, Customs and Costumes of all the People of the World) Librairie Historique-Artistique, Brussels, 1845. Wahlen was the pseudonym of Jean-Francois-Nicolas Loumyer (1801-1875), a writer and archivist with the Heraldic Department of Belgium.
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