Portraits of two Kamtchadal women.

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Portraits of two Kamtchadal women: one in fur-lined dress and one below in headdress. Handcoloured woodcut from Auguste Wahlen's "Moeurs, Usages et Costumes de tous les Peuples du Monde," Librairie Historique-Artistique, Brussels, 1845. Wahlen was the pseudonym of Jean-Francois-Nicolas Loumyer (1801-1875), a writer and archivist with the Heraldic Department of Belgium.

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