COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
01943
Record number:
01943-3
JCB call number:
D699 W128n
Image title:
The Indians in their Robes in Councel, and Smoaking tobacco after their way.
Place image published:
[London]
Image publisher:
[James Knapton]
Image date:
[1699]
Image function:
fold-out plate; following p. 102
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
15.4 cm.
Image dimension width:
26.4 cm.
Page dimension height:
18.9 cm.
Page dimension width:
30.1 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English
Description:
Native Americans in council smoking tobacco. A boy blows smoke into the face of each man. Includes interior of council house, bows, quivers or arrows, nose rings or facial ornaments, necklaces, feathered headdresses, and hammocks.
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 Panamanians smoked by having a boy light a cigar-like roll of tobacco and blow smoke from the lit end through the hollow tube formed by the tobacco into the faces of members of the council. 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 a near fatal 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.
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:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Indians of Central America--Rites and ceremonies
Subject headings:
Indians of Central America--Panama
The Indians in their Robes in Councel, and Smoaking tobacco after their way.
