EditorialCostumes of the Samoyedic peoples of Siberia: men wearing skirted reindeer-skin coats over tight leggings and snow shoes carrying bows. A shaman in coat decorated with animal skins and feathers carrying a drum. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wi...
EditorialThe earliest known depiction of a Siberian shaman, produced by the Dutch explorer Nicolaes Witsen, who authored an account of his travels among Samoyedic and Tungusi speaking peoples in 1692. Witsen labelled the illustration as a "Priest of the Devil" ...
EditorialCostumes of the Samoyedic peoples of Siberia: men wearing skirted reindeer-skin coats over tight leggings and snow shoes carrying bows. A shaman in coat decorated with animal skins and feathers carrying a drum. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wi...