Chinese trackers eating rice with chopsticks, 18th century

Chinese trackers eating rice with chopsticks, 18th century. Trackers towed junks and boats on rivers and wore boards on their chests to protect from rope burn. They wore long pigtails or pien-za tied around their heads.Journaliers prenant leur repas. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by William Alexander from J-B. Eyries La Chine: Costumes, Moeurs et Usages des Chinois, - China: Costumes, Manners and Mores of the Chinese, Librairie de Gide Fils, Paris, 1822. Jean-Baptiste Eyries - (1767-1846) was a - French - geographer, author and translator

 china 1822 18th Century Chopsticks French -  geographer J-b. Eyries Jean-baptiste Eyries Junks La Chine Laborers Librairie De Gide Fils Manners And Mores Of The Chinese Moeurs Et Usages Des Chinois Pigtail Translator William Alexander

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