Atoni warrior of Kupang, West Timor, Indonesia. His back is decorated with tall plant fronds and feathers, and he wears a number of bells representing each man he has killed. He wears a bandana, jacket, tai muti hip-cloth and anklets, carries a musket. Geurrier de Timor (Amfoang). Oceanie. Handcoloured woodcut from Auguste Wahlen's Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les Peuples du Monde, (Manners, Customs and Costumes of all the People of the World) Librairie Historique-Artistique, Brussels, 1845. Wahlen was the pseudonym of Jean-Francois-Nicolas Loumyer (1801-1875), a writer and archivist with the Heraldic Department of Belgium.

Atoni warrior of Kupang, West Timor, Indonesia. His back is decorated with tall plant fronds and feathers, and he wears a number of bells representing each man he has killed. He wears a bandana, jacket, tai muti hip-cloth and anklets, carries a musket. Geurrier de Timor (Amfoang). Oceanie. Handcoloured woodcut from Auguste Wahlen's Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les Peuples du Monde, (Manners, Customs and Costumes of all the People of the World) Librairie Historique-Artistique, Brussels, 1845. Wahlen was the pseudonym of Jean-Francois-Nicolas Loumyer (1801-1875), a writer and archivist with the Heraldic Department of Belgium.

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