Woman of the Erzya Morvins people, 18th century. She wears an embroidered shift decorated with fringes and tassles, wide girdle, bark shoes, large earrings, cap with tail. Mordvine woman from behind, Femme Mordwine, vue par derriere. 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.

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