Young Chuvash woman at prayer in a cabin, 18th century

Young Chuvash woman at prayer in a cabin. She wears traditional garb and prays in front of a sacred keremet of rose branches tied with bark. Fille Tschouvasche en priere. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from A. Antoine de Saint-Gervais's Album des Peuples, ou Collection de Tableaux, Album of Peoples, or Collection of Paintings, J. Langlume et Peltier, Paris, 1835. Reprinted from Moeurs et coutumes des Peuples, Hocquart, 1811

A. Antoine De Saint-gervais Album Des Peuples Bark Chuvashia Collection De Tableaux Ethnography Langlume Et Peltier Moeurs Et Coutumes Des Peuples Prays

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