This tribesman represents an ancient ethnic group from northern Africa which various Roman authors, such as Pliny the Elder, addressed as the Leucoaethiopes, or “White Aethiopians” (a seemingly oxymoronic term since aethiopes means “burnt face” in Greek). The exact meaning of the term is uncertain, with various modern scholars claiming it refers to people admixed between Black Africans and some sort of lighter-skinned “Caucasoid” race of Eurasian origin. However, I believe it could alternatively refer to Black Africans in the Sahara who traditionally painted their bodies white or with white patterning, as some ethnic groups elsewhere on the continent (for example, the Surma and Mursi of southwestern Ethiopia) do today. So that interpretation is what I chose to go with.