Burnous
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A burnous, also burnoose, burnouse, bournous or barnous, is a long cloak of coarse woollen fabric with a pointed hood, often white, traditionally worn by Northwest African men. Historically, the white
Urban Algerian man wearing a white/beige burnous, 19th century
French Colonial era illustration of a North African man wearing a burnous (as well as a local woman), in the Regency of Algiers.
Algerian military leader Abd el-Kader wearing a burnous in 1853
Algerian Spahis of the French army wearing the burnous as part of their uniform, 1886
Numidians
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The Numidians were the Berber population of Numidia. They spoke an Afroasiatic language known as the Numidian language. The Numidians were originally a semi-nomadic people; they migrated frequently as
Burnous
…worn by the Numidians. There are rock engravings near Sigus that attest the existence of the burnous in the ancient times and that it was worn by the Numidians. Additionally, further examples can be observed in funerary monuments located in the area of Tigzirt. During the French colonial period in Algeria…
Statue of Syphax, a Numidian king
Western Old World in 200 BC, showing borders of the Numidian kingdoms after the Second Punic War.
Depiction of Numidian Latin-language prose writer Apuleius, c. 330 AD