Zouave, or Berber Zwawa soldier, of Algeria with musket. The uniform comprised turban, red culottes, leather gaiters, blue jacket and overcoat with hood. Zouave, 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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Zouave, or Berber Zwawa soldier, of Algeria with musket. The uniform comprised turban, red culottes, leather gaiters, blue jacket and overcoat with hood. Zouave, Algerie. L’uniforme consiste en une large culotte rouge, tombant au-dessous du genou, sur de grandes guetres en cuir, une veste bleue a parements rouges, et pardessus un petit bernous qui couvre la tete. Les Zouaves portent la barbe fort longue. 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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