Indian woman of the coast of Orissa (Odisha). She wears tilaka, gold earrings, necklaces and bangles, a striped sari and choli bodice and carries water in a small urn from a spring. Indienne de la Cote d'Orixa. Copperplate engraving by Jean-Baptiste Marie Poisson after an illustration by Pierre Sonnerat from his Voyage aux Indes Orientales et à la Chine (Voyage to the East Indies and China, Dentu, Paris, 1806.

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