Costumes of the Bijagos women, native to Cazegut in the Bissagos Islands off Guinea Bissau. Women with their hair dyed red and dressed with palm oil, and grass skirts. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Antonio Sasso from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1843.

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