Afghan soldier wearing turban, shalwar tunic, kameez trousers, slippers.

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Afghan soldier wearing turban, white shalwar tunic, kameez trousers, slippers, and carrying a musket and dagger in his belt. Mosque in the background. Handcoloured woodcut by Mercier from Auguste Wahlen's "Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les Peuples du Monde," 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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