Woman of the city of Puebla, Mexico. She wears a long shawl, white chemise, long skirt over petticoats. Femme de Puebla. Handcoloured woodcut by S 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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