Itelmen peasant of Kamchatka in front of summer dwelling

Itelmen peasant of Kamchatka in front of a pehm or summer dwelling. He wears a furred hooded reindeer-skin coat, animal-skin trousers and boots, armed with bow and quiver of arrows. Two men climb a ladder to enter a raised pehm, with two dogs tied to the poles. Paysan de Kamtschatka. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Laroque after a design by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur from his Encyclopedie des voyages, Encyclopedia of Voyages, Bordeaux, France, 1792

1792 Animal-skin Anthropology Aquatint Arrows Bordeaux Encyclopedia Of Voyages Encyclopedie Des Voyages Enlightenment Ethnography Furred Imperialism Itelmen J. Laroque Jacques Grasset De Saint-sauveur Kamchatka Leggings Noble Savage Quiver Yurt

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