MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
08922
Record number:
08922-9
JCB call number:
J590 B915v GVL3.1a / 2-SIZE
Image title:
[How I was captured by the savages.]
Place image published:
[Frankfurt am Main]
Image publisher:
[Theodor de Bry]
Image date:
[1593]
Image function:
illustration; p. 22
Technique:
engraving, hand coloring
Image dimension height:
16.2 cm.
Image dimension width:
19.6 cm.
Page dimension height:
35.4 cm.
Page dimension width:
23.8 cm.
Materials medium:
ink, colors
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Native Americans in canoes land on an island named Saint Maro and capture a European man. Includes a fortification named Brikioka, other walled settlements, cannons, birds, church, dwelling, clubs, spears, feathered headdresses and ornaments.
Source Title:
[America. Pt. 3. German] Dritte Buch Americae, darinn Brasilia ... aus eigener erfahrun in Teutsch beschrieben
Source place of publication:
Franckfurt am Mayn [Frankfurt am Main]
Source publisher:
Theodori de Bry
Source date:
1593
notes:
Text describes Staden's capture on the island of Santo Amaro by native Americans who take him back to their settlement of Brikioka to eat him. Image title translated from chapter heading on previous page. This volume contains accounts of Staden's two voyages made to Brazil, 1546 to 1548 and 1549 to 1555, and Jean de Léry's voyage to Brazil made from 1555 to 1558. De Bry included in this volume the account of Hans Staden, Wahrhaftige Historia ... in der Newenwelt America gelegen, Marburg, 1557, and Jean de Léry, Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Brésil, La Rochelle, 1578, as well as two letters by Nicolas Barré dated 1552. Theodor de Bry's America. Pt. 3. German.
Time Period:
1492-1600
References:
Church, E.D. Discovery, 181; Captivity of Hans Stade, Hakluyt Society, Series 1, vol. 51, p. 51-53
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1865.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Brazil
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Captivity narratives--Brazil
Subject headings:
Brazil--History--1548-1580

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