Female wizards of the Teleut and Tungus people of Siberia in ritual clothes and shield drum. Two Tungus hunters below with clothes of reindeer skin carrying bow, arrows, quiver and spear. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige Völkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. Goedsche (1785-1863) was a German writer, bookseller and publisher in Meissen. Many of the illustrations were adapted from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" and others.

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