Costume of a woman hunter of Bjarmaland (now Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia). She wears an outfit of ermine skins, fur hat decorated with horns, long curved shoes. She hunts with bow and arrow. Femme de Biarmie. Within a decorative frame engraved by H. Catenacci and Fellmann. Woodblock engraving by Gerard Seguin and Huyot after a woodcut by Christoph Krieger from Cesare Vecellio’s 16th century Costumes anciens et modernes, Habiti antichi et moderni di tutto il mondo, Firman Didot Ferris Fils, Paris, 1859-1860.

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