Costumes of the Samoyedic peoples of Siberia: men wearing skirted reindeer-skin coats over tight leggings and snow shoes carrying bows. A shaman in coat decorated with animal skins and feathers carrying a drum. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige Völkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. Goedsche (1785-1863) was a German writer, bookseller and publisher in Meissen. Many of the illustrations were adapted from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" and others.

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