Costume of an African Amazon warror, lived near the Kingdom of D'mt in Ethiopia. In plumed turban, animal-skin cloak, scale breastplate, skirt and boots, armed with spear, bow, quiver of arrows and shield. Amazone d'Afrique. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Laroque after a design by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur from his Encyclopedie des voyages, Encyclopedia of Voyages, Bordeaux, France, 1792.

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