Fashion and Hairstyles from 1800 to 1810.
Empire Fashion and Hairstyles from 1800 to 1810.
Category Archives: 1803
Chinese Mandarin. Dignity, sign of dog.
Chinese Mandarin. Portrait of Van-ta-gin.
Chinese Mandarin. Portrait of Van-ta-gin.
(A Chinaman)
Empire fashion and headgear 1800 to 1810.
Empire fashion and headgear 1800 to 1810.
Empire fashion and headgear from 1800 to 1810.
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Don Manuel discovers Beatrice.
Don Manuel discovers Beatrice. By C. Jaeger
Don Manuel discovers Beatrice.
The Bride of Messina by Friedrich Schiller.
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Reign of Napoleon I. Fashion history.
Reign of Napoleon I. 1804 to 1814.
Reign of Napoleon I. 1804 to 1814.
French First Empire fashion. (England Regency, Georgian fashion period)
Back Figure of a Yakutan Girl, Sakha traditional folk dress.
Back Figure of a Yakutan Girl.
Back Figure of a Yakutan Girl, Sakha traditional folk dress 1803.
Front Figure of a Yakutan Girl
Une Fille Yakoute, par derrière.
THE most learned and revered of the Yakutan Aiouns, or priests, are those who can remember the names of the greatest number of divinities; but they are more indebted for the consideration they enjoy to their powers of magic, their tambour, and the oddity of their dress, than to their sacerdotal functions. Continue reading
Back Figure of a Yakut, Sakha in his Hunting Dress.
Back Figure of a Yakut in his Hunting Dress.
Back Figure of a Yakut, Sakha in his Hunting Dress 1803.
Front of of a Yakut, Sakha in his Hunting Dress.
Un Yakout en Habit de Chasse, par derriére.
ALTHOUGH the Yakuti are condemned to a wandering state of existence, they rarely change their winter habitations: in autumn they return to the same huts which they occupied during the preceding winter. Continue reading
A Yakutan Girl, Sakha in traditional folk dress 1803.
A Yakutan Girl.
A Yakutan Girl, Sakha in traditional folk dress 1803.
Back figure of a Yakutan Girl.
Une Fille Yakoute.
SHAMANISM is the only religion known to the Yakuti. They acknowledge two superior beings; both of them nearly equal in power, the one good, and the other bad. Inferior deities, emanating from their substance, participate also of their qualities. They marry, and have children of both sexes; who, in their turn, produce other divinities, inhabiting the air, the earth, and the waters. Continue reading
A Female Yakut in traditional folk dress 1803.
A Female Yakut.
A Female Yakut, Sakha in traditional folk dress 1803.
Sakha (Yakutia) Republic.
Une Femme Yakoute.
THE dress of the Yakutan women resembles that of the man; but, in general, their garments are better worked, and more loaded with ornaments. When they wish to appear in their best attire, they throw over their usual dress a waistcoat without sleeves, about six inches shorter than their under garment. Continue reading
An armed Turcoman, with his Bow 1803.
A Turcoman, with his Bow.
An armed Turcoman, with his Bow 1803
Un Turcoman armé de son Arc, &c.
THE Trukhmenes, or Turcomans, says Professor Pallas, are a wealthy, well-formed, lively people, and more attached to ornamental dress than any other tribe of the Steppes. Continue reading