Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Native American fisherman]

Accession number: 
09226
Record number: 
09226-10
JCB call number: 
E716 F896r /1-SIZE
Image title: 
[Native American fisherman]
Creator 1: 
N. Guérard
Creator 1 role: 
fecit
Place image published: 
[Paris]
Image publisher: 
[Nyon ... Ganeau ... Quillau]
Image date: 
[1716]
Image function: 
Plate XVI; following p. 108
Technique: 
engraving
Image dimension height: 
18.9 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width: 
14.2 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height: 
24.2 cm.
Page dimension width: 
17.3 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
French
Description: 
Native South American [Chilean] paddling a raft made of seal skins sewn together and inflated. Also includes penguin, seal and inset diagram of raft and method of stitching.
Source creator: 
Frézier, Amédée François, 1682-1773
Source Title: 
Relation du voyage de la mer du sud aux côtes du Chily et du Perou fait pendant les années 1712, 1713 & 1714.
Source place of publication: 
A Paris
Source publisher: 
Chez Jean-Geoffroy Nyon ... Etienne Ganeau ... Jacque Quillau
Source date: 
MDCCXVI [1716]
notes: 
Engraver is probably Nicolas Guerard, active 1680-1719.
Time Period: 
1701-1750
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired before 1870.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
Commentary: 
geographic area: 
Spanish America
Subject Area: 
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area: 
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings: 
Indians of South America--Fishing