Udmurt woman, 18th century. She wears a linen headdress called a nilserga kisel, copper earrings and bracelets, embroidered open-sleeved robe, apron and shift. Votiakian woman, Femme Votiake. 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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