Funeral service of the Lapps. The corpse is buried in a grave in a large hewn coffin without a lid, along with flint and steel. Handcolored copperplate engraving from G. T. Wilhelm's "Encyclopedia of Natural History: Mankind," Augsburg, 1804. Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian clergyman and naturalist known as the German Buffon.

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