Female magician or shaman, Mongol people, 18th century

Female magician or shaman, Mongol people, 18th century. She wears an iron hat and a fringed leather dress decorated with iron pieces. She holds a drum and feather. Mongol shaman, Chaman Mongol.Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by William Alexander 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 Ethnography Fringe J-b. Eyries Jean-baptiste Eyries La Russie Librairie De Gide Fils Manners And Mores Of The Russians Moeurs Et Usages Des Russes Shaman Translator William Alexander

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