Natives of Gona (Angola) above, man with bow and arrow, woman with beaded apron, child in loincloth, and Khoikhoi man in fur cape with spear and Khoikhoi woman in fur cape over beaded belts and apron. 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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