Costumes of Sudan: woman of Shendi in skirt and veil, Funje women of Sennar, and a Sheygya warrior with spear and shield. Man and woman of Gamamil province, and two men of Fazughli town, one a king (Melik) carrying a distinctive sword and prayer beads. 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

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Costumes of Sudan: woman of Shendi in skirt and veil, Funje women of Sennar, and a Sheygya warrior with spear and shield. Man and woman of Gamamil province, and two men of Fazughli town, one a king (Melik) carrying a distinctive sword and prayer beads. 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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