Costumes of Australia, Oceania, 1858. Aborigine men examining flotsam from a European shipwreck on a beach. In loincloths and capes, armed with spear and shield, they hold a top hat and hand mirror. Naturels de l'Australie pillant des debris de naufrage. Handcoloured and sepia-tinted lithograph by Jean-Adolphe Bocquin after an illustration by Auguste Leloir from Elisabeth Muller (pseudonym of Leonie Bedelet)’s Le Monde en Estampes, The World in Prints, Amadee Bedelet, Paris, 1858.

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