Costume of a Mari woman of the Volga River, 18th century

Costume of a Mari woman of the Volga River, 18th century. She wears a tall conical schourki hat with a long tail, made of bark covered with cloth and decorated with beads, shells and coins. Long gown, cloth girdle and bark shoes. Cheremisa woman, Femme Tcheremisse vue par derriere. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Johann Gottlieb Georgi from J-B. Eyries La Russie: Costumes, Moeurs et Usages des Russes, - Russia: Costumes, Manners and Mores of the Russians, Librairie de Gide Fils, Paris, 1823. Jean-Baptiste Eyries - (1767-1846) was a - French - geographer, author and translator

 geographer  russia 18th Century Bark Beads Coins Ethnography J-b. Eyries Jean-baptiste Eyries Johann Gottlieb Georgi La Russie Librairie De Gide Fils Manners And Mores Of The Russians Maris Moeurs Et Usages Des Russes Shells Shift Translator

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