COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
01631
Record number:
01631-16
JCB call number:
F671 M765n / 1-SIZE
Image title:
Uiztlipuztli idolum Mexicanorum.
Place image published:
[Amsterdam]
Image publisher:
[Jacob Meurs]
Image date:
[1671]
Image function:
plate; following p. 220
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
27.6 cm.
Image dimension width:
34.3 cm. [both pages]
Page dimension height:
31.6 cm.
Page dimension width:
37.1 cm. [both pages]
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Latin
Description:
Native American worship before Huitzilopochtli, a Mexican idol or statue, in the interior of a temple. The idol, shown as a devil with wings, a face on his stomach, and cloven hooves, stands on an altar decorated with military matériel such as spears, shields, and feathered headdresses. In one hand he holds a pole, in the other a shield with five feathers on it. Also includes animal headdresses and men worshipping before the idol.
Source creator:
Montanus, Arnoldus, 1625?-1683
Source Title:
De Nieuwe en onbekende Weereld: of Beschryving van America
Source place of publication:
t'Amsterdam
Source publisher:
By Jacob Meurs Boek-verkooper en Plaet-snyder, op de Kaisars-graf, schuin over de wester-markt, in de stad Meurs
Source date:
1671
notes:
Huitzilopochtli or Huitziláihuitl, an Aztec god symbolized by the hummingbird, was the god of the sun and war. Text describes the statue as being seated on a litter painted blue with serpents' heads at the end of the poles. The statue held a serpent in one hand and a shield with five feathers on it in the other. Its head was crowned with feathers.
Time Period:
1651-1700
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1847.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Indians of Mexico--Religion
Uiztlipuztli idolum Mexicanorum.
