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Description de toutes les nations de l'empire de Russie, oú, L'on expose leurs moeurs, religions, usages, habitations, habillemens et autres particulatités remarquables

Georgi, Johann Gottlieb, 1738-1802 · 1776 · St. Petersbourg : C. G. Müller · 22 pictures

Johann Gottlieb Georgi's French-language ethnographic survey of the peoples of the Russian empire, printed in St. Petersburg in 1776 for European readers of natural history and costume. Copperplate figures stand full-length on low hillocks, drawn in fine hatching: fur parkas, fringed and belted robes, hide boots, staffs, spears, and a shaman hung with metal pendants.

Ethnology · Costume

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