Costume of a Mari woman of the Volga River, 18th century. She wears a tall conical schourki hat with a long tail, made of bark covered with cloth and decorated with beads, shells and coins. Long gown, cloth girdle and bark shoes. Cheremisa woman, Femme Tcheremisse vue par derriere. 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 trans
Costume of a Mari woman of the Volga River, 18th century. She wears a tall conical schourki hat with a long tail, made of bark covered with cloth and decorated with beads, shells and coins. Long gown, cloth girdle and bark shoes. Cheremisa woman, Femme Tcheremisse vue par derriere. 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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