Costumes 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 Wilhelm Goedsche's 鈥榁ollstaendige V枚lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen' (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures); Meissen; circa 1835-1840. Goedsche (1785-1863) was a German writer; bookseller and publisher in Meissen. Many of the illustrations were adapted from Bertuch's 鈥楤ilderbuch fur Kinder' and others.