Man of the Lou-Tchou Islands (RyuKyu Islands or modern Okinawa).

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Man of the Lou-Tchou Islands (RyuKyu Islands or modern Okinawa). Handcoloured woodcut by Mercier from Auguste Wahlen's "Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les Peuples du Monde," 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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