Chief of the Tartar settlement in the north of the island of Sakhalin. In robe embroidered with dragons, trousers, holding a shawl and stick. After an illustration by Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau in Adam Johann von Krusenstern's Reise um die Welt, 1812. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Frederic Shoberl’s The World in Miniature, Japan, Rudolph Ackermann, London, 1823.

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