Model figure of a (possibly) Gwich'in man, made of carton-pierre, one of a collection illustrating national costumes of the Russian Empire for the Paris Exhibition, 1867: Russian, St Petersburg, by I.M. Heiser, c. 1867

Small carton-pierre figure of a Bashkir from the upper basin of the Volga, one of a collection illustrating national costumes of the Russian Empire: Russian, St Petersburg, by I.M. Heiser, c. 1867, from the 1867 Paris Exhibition

Small carton-pierre figure of a Calmuck nomad of the lower basins of the Don and Volga, one of a collection illustrating national costumes of the Russian Empire: Russian, St Petersburg, by I.M. Heiser, c. 1867, from the 1867 Paris Exhibition

Small carton-pierre figure of a Cossack woman of the Ural, one of a collection illustrating national costumes of the Russian Empire: Russian, St Petersburg, by I.M. Heiser, c. 1867, from the 1867 Paris Exhibition

Small carton-pierre figure of a Courland woman of the Baltic Provinces, one of a collection illustrating national costumes of the Russian Empire: Russian, St Petersburg, by I.M. Heiser, c. 1867, from the 1867 Paris Exhibition

Small carton-pierre figure of a Circassian from Caucasian Province, one of a collection illustrating national costumes of the Russian Empire: Russian, St Petersburg, by I.M. Heiser

Model figure of a Dena'ina woman, made of carton-pierre, one of a collection illustrating national costumes of the Russian Empire for the Paris Exhibition, 1867: Russian, St Petersburg, by I.M. Heiser, c. 1867

Model figure of a Dena'ina man, made of carton-pierre, one of a collection illustrating national costumes of the Russian Empire for the Paris Exhibition, 1867: Russian, St Petersburg, by I.M. Heiser, c. 1867

Small carton-pierre figure of a Kirghiz from the vicinity of the Caspian Sea, one of a collection illustrating national costumes of the Russian Empire: Russian, St Petersburg, by I.M. Heiser, c. 1867, from the 1867 Paris Exhibition

Small carton-pierre figure of a Lesghian from Transcaucasia, one of a collection illustrating national costumes of the Russian Empire: Russian, St Petersburg, by I.M. Heiser, c. 1867, from the 1867 Paris Exhibition

Small carton-pierre figure of a Mingrelian from Transcaucasia, one of a collection illustrating national costumes of the Russian Empire: Russian, St Petersburg, by I.M. Heiser, c. 1867, from the 1867 Paris Exhibition

Small carton-pierre figure of a Muscovite from the centre of Great Russia, one of a collection illustrating national costumes of the Russian Empire: Russian, St Petersburg, by I.M. Heiser, c. 1867, from the 1867 Paris Exhibition

Small carton-pierre figure of a Russian woman of Riazan, Russia, one of a collection illustrating national costumes of the Russian Empire: Russian, St Petersburg, by I.M. Heiser, c. 1867, from the 1867 Paris Exhibition

Small carton-pierre figure of a Tartar woman of Central Asia, one of a collection illustrating national costumes of the Russian Empire: Russian, St Petersburg, by I.M. Heiser, c. 1867, from the 1867 Paris Exhibition

Small carton-pierre figure of a Votyak woman, Government of Vyatka, Czarate of Kazan, one of a collection illustrating national costumes of the Russian Empire: Russian, St Petersburg, by I.M. Heiser, c. 1867, from the 1867 Paris Exhibition

Small carton-pierre figure of a Yakut of the Lena, Eastern Siberia, one of a collection illustrating national costumes of the Russian Empire: Russian, St Petersburg, by I.M. Heiser