A very large native American man wearing a bicorn hat and carrying a walking stick stands next to a smaller man carrying and/or playing a musical instrument like a portable harp.
Source creator:
Zimmermann, Eberhard August Wilhelm von, 1743-1815
Source Title:
Jorden och dess invânare, historisk tafla af det adertonde ârhundradets upptäckter om fremmande folkslag och länder; ... Guiana, Peru, Paraguay och Tukuman.
Source place of publication:
Stockholm
Source publisher:
hos Zacharias Haeggström
Source date:
1819
notes:
Basilio Huaylas was a "giant" who lived in Peru. He was 7 feet 2 inches tall, weighed 362 pounds, and came from the province of Castro-Virreyna. The arpa indígena, a musical instrument, was used by the mestizo and native Andean population of Peru. It had been brought to South America by Spanish missionaries who encouraged its use.Zimmermann, a much-honored and prolific polymath, traveled to Lapland, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, England, France, Switzerland, Italy, and in his native Germany. His writings on the Americas, however, are based on extensive reading in other sources such as Raleigh, Merian, Stedman, Fermin, von Rösel, Barrère, La Condamine, Bouguer, Humboldt, Van Berkel, Cabot, Helms, and Dobritzhoffer, among others.Issued as part 7 of Zimmermann's 13-volume travel series as published in Swedish, Stockholm, 1813-1839. A translation of part 6 of Die Erde und ihre Bewohner ... originally published in Leipzig, 1802-1818.Cf. Skinner, The present state of Peru ... London, 1805 (05677-2).
Time Period:
1801-1850
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities; Indigenous peoples
geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject headings:
Indians of South America--Peru; Abnormalities, Human; Giants; Stature, Tall
Provenance/Donor:
Former collection of the Villiga Brandkârens Bibliotek.
