COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
35312
Record number:
35312-4
JCB call number:
J590 B915v GVL 10 / 2-SIZE
Image title:
Quomodo Indiani Hispanis per foeminas dolos struxerint, atque hinc velitaris pugna coortasit.
Place image published:
[Oppenheim]
Image publisher:
[Hieronymus Galler]
Image date:
[1619]
Image function:
illustration; plate 3
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
14.9 cm.
Image dimension width:
17.7 cm.
Page dimension height:
36.2 cm.
Page dimension width:
23.3 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Native American women in canoes meet Spanish soldiers in boats. In the background from a settlement made of dwellings built on water, native American soldiers attack Spaniards who shoot at them with guns or muskets.
Source Title:
[America. Pt 10. Latin] Americae pars decima: Qua continentur, I. Duae navigationes Dn. Americi Vesputii ... II. Solida narratio de moderno provinciae Virginiae statu ... III. Vera descriptio Novae Angliae ...
Source place of publication:
Oppenheimii [Oppenheim]
Source publisher:
Typis Hieronymi Galleri
Source date:
M DC XIX. [1619]
notes:
Text describes how the Spanish explorers discovered villages built upon the waters of a lake, Lago de Maracaibo, linked by bridges and reminding them of Venice (from which the name Venezuela comes). When the natives saw the Spanish coming they paddled in canoes with young women to offer them to the visitors. At a signal from older women, the young women jumped from the canoes and the men began shooting arrows at the Spanish. This work was published by Johann Theodor de Bry and contains three parts. The first part includes two letters of Amerigo Vespucci describing his voyages to America in 1497 and 1499. The second is derived from Ralph Hamor, A true discours of the present state of Virginia, London, 1615. The third part is derived from Captain John Smith, A description of New England, London, 1616. Theodor de Bry's America. Pt. 10. Latin. Imprint information from colophon.
Time Period:
1601-1650
References:
Church, E.D. Discovery, 171
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1871.
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:
First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners
Subject headings:
Indians of South America
Quomodo Indiani Hispanis per foeminas dolos struxerint, atque hinc velitaris pugna coortas...
