Karagas
"Karakasse".
Antique copper engraving from a book "Costumes Civils Actuels de Tous Les Peuples Connus, Dessines d'Apres Nature, Graves Et Colories".
Karagasy (new name Tofalary, tofy). Turkic-speaking indigenous people living in the south of Siberia.
They live on the territory of Tofalaria, the southwestern part of the Nizhneudinsky district of the Irkutsk region, in the basins of the Biryusa, Uda, Kan, Gutara, Ii and other rivers on the northeastern slopes of the Eastern Sayan. In the 1920-1930s, when they were transferred to a settled way of life, they were forcibly relocated to the villages of Alygdzher, Upper Gutara and Nerkha. From the end of the 17th century until 1925, the number of Tofalars invariably ranged from 400 to 500 people.
Technique, Material: Copper engraving / hand coloured / Paper
Artist: Claude-Louis Desrais, Engraver: Jean Marie Mixelle
Date, Publisher: Costumes Civils' by Sylvain Marechal, Paris, 1789
Size: sheet 14 x 21 cm.
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