Evenks or Tungusic woman of Siberia. Hair in pigtails, wearing a long elegant coat, gown, breeches and boots of reindeer skin decorated with beads and fringes. Femme Tounguses. 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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