Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: The Indians maner of Bloodletting.

Accession number: 
01943
Record number: 
01943-2
JCB call number: 
D699 W128n
Image title: 
The Indians maner of Bloodletting.
Creator 1: 
I. Savage
Creator 1 role: 
sculp.
Place image published: 
[London]
Image publisher: 
[James Knapton]
Image date: 
[1699]
Image function: 
fold-out plate; following p. 28
Technique: 
engraving
Image dimension height: 
16.7 cm.
Image dimension width: 
13.6 cm.
Page dimension height: 
18.9 cm.
Page dimension width: 
15.1 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
English
Description: 
A native American man or shaman shoots a small bow with arrows all over the body of a woman seated by a stream. Includes nose rings or facial ornaments, necklaces, and dwelling.
Source creator: 
Wafer, Lionel, 1660?-1705?
Source Title: 
A new voyage and description of the isthmus of America ...
Source place of publication: 
London
Source publisher: 
Printed for James Knapton, at the Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard
Source date: 
1699
notes: 
Text describes how native Americans cured illness by bloodletting. The woman is the wife of Lacenta, chief or cacique of the Cuna on the north side of the isthmus. Wafer joined Bartholomew Sharp and William Dampier on an expedition aimed at raiding Spanish settlements in Central and South America from 1679 to 1681. After an accident on the isthmus of Panama, he was nursed back to health by the Cuna Indians of the region. He was engaged by the Darien Company in 1698 as a consultant. The engraver may be John Savage (fl. 1683-1700).
Time Period: 
1651-1700
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired in 1854.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area: 
Spanish America
Subject Area: 
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings: 
Panama--Description and travel
Subject headings: 
Indians of Central America--Panama