Woman of the Moksha Mordvins people, 18th century. She wears a panga bonnet and hair braided with black wool extensions. Embroidered shift decorated with fringes and tassles, linen socks and bark shoes. Female Mordvine, Femme Mordwine. 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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