Itelmen or Kamchadal woman. In striped turban, high collar shirt, fur-lined coat, animal-skin gown dressed with fringes, sandals, holding a basket of vegetables. Aboriginal people of Kamchatka, decimated by Cossacks and smallpox in the 18th century. Femme Kamtschadale. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Laroque after a design by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur from his Encyclopedie des voyages, Encyclopedia of Voyages, Bordeaux, France, 1792.

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