II. Tab. 9. Tschuktschen = Tchouctches.

• Main Authors: Klinger, Johann Georg, 1764-1806, Müller, Johann Wolfgang
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Klinger, Johann Georg, 1764-1806 1807
• Subjects: Ethnography; Nationality; Race; Chukchi; Chukchi Peninsula; Tschuktsche*
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View representing indigenous figures from the Chukchi Peninsula, wearing their traditional attire. The background shows figures and animals in a mountainous landscape. With text in German and French. Hand colored engraving. View is 9 x 9 cm, on card 10 x 9 cm. Appears in II. Asiatiques. Description de differens peuples remarquables des cinq parties du monde avec des figures representant leur costume national by Jean Wolfgang Müller and Jean George Klinger. Published by Klinger in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1807. Second edition. Title translates to: Description of different remarkable peoples from the five parts of the world with figures representing their national costume. Board game featuring one world map and one map each of Europe, Asia, Africa, North America and Australia, as well as views of specific indigenous groups for each of those five regions. The game is housed in a box, which is decorated with marbled papers and features a pasted-on, hand-colored engraving of a European explorer amidst a group of indigenous people, all surrounding the title cartouche. The box contains a booklet of descriptive text, world map, game board, 4-page sheet of instructions, and five slipcases, each housing a map of a continent with views of figures indigenous to specific regions, wearing their traditional attire. Each view is accompanied by captions in German and French. The accompanying booklet contains detailed descriptions of the attire, diet and lifestyle of each indigenous group depicted. Pagination: [I-III] IV-SVI, [1-2], 3-127 pages. The game was a collaboration between geographer Klinger and gamemnaker Müller. A German first edition was published in 1801, followed by this second edition in both German and French in 1807. Klinger (1764-1806) was a German map, globe and game maker active in Nuremberg during the early to mid-19th century. He was consider the most prominent globe maker of his generation. Müller (1765-1828) was a Nuremberg-based educator and publisher of playing cards and other games.