Arab of the plains or Arab Chief of the desert, Algeria. He wears a keffiyeh, short burnous with hood, and holds a blunderbuss. Arabe de la Plaine, Algerie. 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. 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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