Female magician or shaman, Mongol people, 18th century. She wears an iron hat and a fringed leather dress decorated with iron pieces. She holds a drum and feather. Mongol shaman, Chaman Mongol.Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by William Alexander from J-B. Eyries La Russie: Costumes, Moeurs et Usages des Russes, Russia: Costumes, Manners and Mores of the Russians, Librairie de Gide Fils, Paris, 1823. Jean-Baptiste Eyries (1767-1846) was a French geographer, author and translator.
Female magician or shaman, Mongol people, 18th century. She wears an iron hat and a fringed leather dress decorated with iron pieces. She holds a drum and feather. Mongol shaman, Chaman Mongol.Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by William Alexander from J-B. Eyries La Russie: Costumes, Moeurs et Usages des Russes, Russia: Costumes, Manners and Mores of the Russians, Librairie de Gide Fils, Paris, 1823. Jean-Baptiste Eyries (1767-1846) was a French geographer, author and translator.