Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Was sie für Ceremonien in Begräbniss irer Könige und Priester haben.
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Accession number:
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08915
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Record number:
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08915-45
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JCB call number:
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J590 B915v GVG 2.1 / 2-SIZE (copy 2)
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Image title:
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Was sie für Ceremonien in Begräbniss irer Könige und Priester haben.
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Creator 1:
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Place image published:
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[Frankfurt am Main]
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Image publisher:
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[Johann Feyerabend for Theodor de Bry]
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Image date:
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[1591]
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Image function:
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illustration; pt. 2, plate XL
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Technique:
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engraving, hand coloring
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Image dimension height:
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15.3 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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21.5 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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32.5 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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22.5 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink, colors
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Materials support:
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paper
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Description:
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Funeral ceremonies of chiefs or kings and priest. Native Americans sit around a grave marked with a shell drinking cup and arrows. In the background some dwellings in a settlement burn.
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Source Title:
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[America. Pt 2. German] Der ander Theil der newlich erfundenen Landtschafft Americae, von dreyen Schiffahrten, so die Frantzosen in Floridam ... gethan ...
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Source place of publication:
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Franckfort am Mayn [Frankfurt am Main]
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Source publisher:
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bey Johann Feyerabendt, in Verlegung Dieterich von Bry
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Source date:
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1591
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notes:
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The text describes how the chief is buried and how his subjects mourn his death. They mourn for three days and nights without eating or drinking and all cut off most of their hair. They burn the house of the chief with all his personal property in it. This work was published by Theodor de Bry from manuscript notes and drawings made by Jacques le Moyne de Morgues, an illustrator and explorer, who sailed with René de Laudonnière on the 1564 Huguenot expedition to Florida. Laudonnière set up Fort Caroline on the St. John's River in 1564, but the settlement was destroyed by the Spanish army under Pedro Menendez de Aviles. Theodor de Bry's America. Pt. 2. German.
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Time Period:
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1492-1600
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Subject matter:
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conjurer, sorcerer, shaman
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References:
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Alexander, M. ed. Discovering the New World, p. 12-16
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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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North America
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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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Indigenous peoples
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Subject headings:
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Indians of North America--Florida
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Subject headings:
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Indians of North America--Funeral rites and ceremonies
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Subject headings:
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Florida--History--Huguenot colony, 1562-1565
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