Man of the nomadic Evenki people, 18th century. He wears an embroidered breastplate and coat of He holds a bow and arrow, with quiver on his back. Sakha and Evenkiia, Siberia. Tungoose or Tungus people, Tongouse. 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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