Saharan costumes: Moors in the desert, and Tuaregs in leather clothes and in the formal clothes with spear, sword and dagger at the oasis town of Ayade. 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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Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
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