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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
32798
Record number:
32798-5
JCB call number:
EA614 C615h
Image title:
[Title page]
Place image published:
[Paris]
Image publisher:
[François Huby]
Image date:
[1614]
Image function:
title page
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
15.3 cm.
Image dimension width:
9.4 cm.
Page dimension height:
16.8 cm.
Page dimension width:
10.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
French
Description:
Title page with title surmounted by a queen surrounded by kneeling native Americans and angels. The title is flanked by the pope with a triple crown and key blessing a native American and a priest with a crucifix blessing another. Two vignettes at the bottom show a scene of cannibalism with roasting limbs on a grill and two priests blessing native Americans. Includes coats of arms, crown, and feathered garments.
Source creator:
Claude d'Abbeville, pére, d. 1632
Source Title:
Histoire de la mission des peres capucines en l'isle de Maragnan ...
Source place of publication:
A Paris
Source publisher:
Del'imprimerie de François Huby, ruë St. Jacques à la Bible d'Or ...
Source date:
1614
notes:
French Capuchins attempted to establish a mission in Maranhão in northern Brazil in 1612. Competing both with the Jesuits and the Portuguese for the conquest of Brazil, the organizers of the mission brought back to France with them six Tupinambas to help raise money and support for the settlement. Claude d'Abbeville's account is the principal source about this early and unsuccessful attempt by the French to establish a foothold in South America.
Time Period:
1601-1650
References exhibitions:
Danforth, S. Encountering the New World, Fig. 26
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1960.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Catholic Church--Missions
Subject headings:
Monasticism and religious orders--Missions
Subject headings:
Indians of South America--Brazil

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