COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
09187
Record number:
09187-3
JCB call number:
J590 B915v GVG 9 / 2-SIZE
Image title:
Wie die Indianer das Goldt aus den Bergen graben.
Place image published:
[Frankfurt am Main]
Image publisher:
[Wolffgang Richter]
Image date:
[1601]
Image function:
illustration; pt. 3, plate 3
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
14.8 cm.
Image dimension width:
19 cm.
Page dimension height:
35.3 cm.
Page dimension width:
23.3 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
German
Description:
Method by which native Americans mined precious metals from the mountain. Men climb up and down a ladder carrying ore from the mines. Other men hold lights and use pickaxes to extract the ore. In the background men herd llamas, taking the metal to a watermill.
Source Title:
[America. Pt 9. German] Neundter und Letzter Theil Americae ...
Source place of publication:
Franckfurt am Mayn [Frankfurt am Main]
Source publisher:
Bey Wolffgang Richter
Source date:
[1601]
notes:
Text describes mines at Potosí, in present-day Bolivia, the richest silver mines in the Americas. It describes how the natives worked about a hundred and fifty fathoms below the ground and carried the ore out by a series of double-sided ladders made from ox-hide and poles. 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.
Time Period:
1601-1650
References:
Church, E.D. Discovery, 168
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1865.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Indians of South America
Subject headings:
Silver mines and mining
Wie die Indianer das Goldt aus den Bergen graben.
