Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Von seltzamer Fischeren der Indianer.
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Accession number:
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09187
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Record number:
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09187-1
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JCB call number:
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J590 B915v GVG 9 / 2-SIZE
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Image title:
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Von seltzamer Fischeren der Indianer.
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Place image published:
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[Frankfurt am Main]
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Image publisher:
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[Wolffgang Richter]
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Image date:
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[1601]
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Image function:
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illustration; pt. 3, plate 1
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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14.4 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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18.3 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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35.3 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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23.3 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink
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Materials support:
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paper
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Languages:
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German
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Description:
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Method of fishing by native Americans. Men catch fish in nets, make boats out of bundles of reeds, and catch whales by hammering plugs into their [two] blowholes.
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Source Title:
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[America. Pt 9. German] Neundter und Letzter Theil Americae ...
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Source place of publication:
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Franckfurt am Mayn [Frankfurt am Main]
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Source publisher:
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Bey Wolffgang Richter
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Source date:
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[1601]
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notes:
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Acosta reported that native Americans in the West Indies hunted whales by climbing on the animal's back and hammering wooden plugs into their blowholes. When the whales suffocated, the fishermen hauled the whale onto a beach. This work contains three different voyages; Pt. 1 is José de Acosta, Historie naturael ende morael van de Westersche Indien, Haarlem, 1598; Pt. 2 is Barent Janszoon Potgieter, Wijdtloopigh verhael van tgene de vijf schepen, Amsterdam, 1600, here entitled Relatio historica; the appendix and Pt. 3 is Olivier van Noort, Beschryvinghe van de voyagie, Rotterdam & Amsterdam, 1602, here entitled Additamentum nonae partis Americae. Theodor de Bry's America. Pt. 9. German.
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Time Period:
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1601-1650
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References:
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Church, E.D. Discovery, 168
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired before 1865.
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Owner and copyright:
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©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
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Caribbean Islands
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Subject Area:
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Artifacts, industry, and human activities
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Subject Area:
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Flora and fauna
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Subject Area:
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Indigenous peoples
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Subject headings:
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Indians of the West Indies
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