Costumes of the Buriats of Siberia (Russia): women with their pompoms and a family scene. Below, a hunter, a dignitary and a shaman holding a small ritual round shield. Lithography for the book: “” Galerie complete en tableaux fideles des peuples d'Asie”” by Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche (1785-1863), edition Meissen (Germany), 1835-1840. Costumes of the Burat people of Siberia. Woman in coat with tassels, hunter in reindeer-skin coat with bow and quiver, noble in formal robes. Shamans in long decorated coats carrying round shields and ritual tools. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's “” Vollstaendige Voelkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen”” (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840.