Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Anthoine Manen.

Accession number: 
32798
Record number: 
32798-6
JCB call number: 
EA614 C615h
Image title: 
Anthoine Manen.
Place image published: 
[Paris]
Image publisher: 
[François Huby]
Image date: 
[1614]
Image function: 
plate; following p. 358
Technique: 
engraving
Image dimension height: 
14.7 cm.
Image dimension width: 
8.6 cm.
Page dimension height: 
16.8 cm.
Page dimension width: 
10.5 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
French
Description: 
Portrait of a native American in feathered garment holding a bow and arrow. Includes facial ornament of a face stone.
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: 
Antoine Manen was one of the six Tupinamba brought to Paris by the organizers of the mission to Maragnan (or São Luís de Maranhão) in Brazil to raise money for the French colony there. He died before he could be baptised.
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
Commentary: 
Subject Area: 
Indigenous peoples
Subject Area: 
Portraits
Subject headings: 
Catholic Church--Missions
Subject headings: 
Monasticism and religious orders--Missions
Subject headings: 
Indians of South America--Brazil