Summer dress of a Mari woman, 18th century

Summer dress of a Mari woman, 18th century. She wears a shift embroidered with wool at the collar, cuffs and hem. Ornamented bonnet, colourful girdle, drawers and stockings, bark shoes. Cheremisa woman in summer dress, Femme Tcheremisse en habit d'ete. 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 Cuffs Drawers Ethnography J-b. Eyries Jean-baptiste Eyries La Russie Librairie De Gide Fils Manners And Mores Of The Russians Maris Moeurs Et Usages Des Russes Shift Summer Dress Translator William Alexander

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