Woman of the Moksha Mordvins people, 18th century

Woman of the Moksha Mordvins people, 18th century. She wears a panga bonnet and hair braided with black wool extensions. Embroidered shift decorated with fringes and tassles, linen socks and bark shoes. Female Mordvine, Femme Mordwine. 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 Ethnography Fringe J-b. Eyries Jean-baptiste Eyries Johann Gottlieb Georgi La Russie Librairie De Gide Fils Manners And Mores Of The Russians Moeurs Et Usages Des Russes Shift Tassle Translator

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