A woman dips a new born baby in a pond, a birth custom among the natives of Guinea, 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: 4641px × 3759px
Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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