Australian aborigines with bodypainting in charcoal and clay, and scarification. Borogegal man of Port Jackson at left. 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. Illustrations copied from Peron and Freycinet's "Voyage de Decouvertes aux terres Australes" 1807.

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