Caption:
Ainu man of the Kuril Islands (Sakhalin Oblast), Russia, 18th cenutry. He has facial tattoos, embroidered cotton robe, bow and quiver of arrows. Kurilian, Kourilien. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Johann Gottlieb Georgi 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.