Zulu or Xhosa woman of Natal, eastern South Africa. Dancing, wearing an animal-skin hat with long tails, ivory necklace and earrings, animal-skin fringed skrt, holding a branch with fruit. Sauvagesse de la Terre de Natal. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Laroque after a design by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur from his Encyclopedie des voyages, Encyclopedia of Voyages, Bordeaux, France, 1792.

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