Native American gaucho on horseback using bolas or boleadoras to hunt ostrich on the pampas in South America. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Theodore Goetz from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1823.

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