Afbeelding der Touvingas, volgens de tekening door de Societeit van Suriname aan de Hollandsche Maatschappy der Wetenschappen te Haerlem gezonden.
Creator 1:
Jacob van der Schley
Creator 1 dates:
fl. 1763-1770
Creator 1 role:
direx.
Place image published:
[Amsterdam]
Image publisher:
[Garritt Tielenburg ]
Image date:
[1770]
Image function:
plate; vol. 2, following p. 810
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
19.3 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width:
13.5 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height:
27 cm.
Page dimension width:
21 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Dutch
Description:
Native American man with feathered headdress. He has two toes on his feet and abnormalities on his fingers.
Source creator:
Hartsinck, Jan Jakob, 1716-1779
Source Title:
Beschryving van Guiana, of de wildekust, in Zuid-America ... Tweede deel
Source place of publication:
Te Amsterdam
Source publisher:
By Garritt Tielenburg
Source date:
MDCCLXX [1770]
notes:
Text discusses the Touvingas who were Surinamese blacks of a particular tribe or nation.Hartsinck, a director of the Dutch West India Company (VOC), had access to many VOC documents now lost, as well as to the papers of his father (who had been director of the Surinam Society for 25 years). He was also an official of the Admiralty in Amsterdam and a member of the Zeeland Academy of Sciences.
Time Period:
1751-1800
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
geographic area:
Guianas
Subject headings:
Indians of South America--Suriname; Abnormalities, Human
