COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
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JCB~1~1
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Collection
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Accession number:
35558
accession_no
35558
Accession number
false
Record number:
35558-1
record_number
35558-1
Record number
false
JCB call number:
D759 W732f
jcb_call_no
D759 W732f
JCB call number
false
Image title:
Mr. Peter Williamson in the Dress of a Delaware Indian
image_title
Mr. Peter Williamson in the Dress of a Delaware Indian
Image title
false
Place image published:
[London]
place_image_published
[London]
Place image published
false
Image publisher:
[Peter Williamson, sold by R. Griffiths]
image_publisher
[Peter Williamson, sold by R. Griffiths]
Image publisher
false
Image date:
[1759]
image_date
[1759]
Image date
false
Image function:
frontispiece
image_function
frontispiece
Image function
false
Technique:
engraving
technique
engraving
Technique
false
Image dimension height:
11 cm.
image_dimensions_height
11 cm.
Image dimension height
false
Image dimension width:
7.2 cm.
image_dimensions_width
7.2 cm.
Image dimension width
false
Page dimension height:
18 cm.
page_dimensions_height
18 cm.
Page dimension height
false
Page dimension width:
10.2 cm.
page_dimensions_width
10.2 cm.
Page dimension width
false
Materials medium:
ink
materials_medium
ink
Materials medium
false
Materials support:
paper
materials_support
paper
Materials support
false
Languages:
English
languages
English
Languages
false
Description:
Portrait of a European colonist dressed as a native American of the Delaware Indians. Wearing a feathered headdress, wampum belt, gorget, and moccasins and carrying a gun or musket and a scalping knife, the man smokes a hatchet pipe and stands before a group of dancers and men paddling a canoe. Items in the image are numbered for identification in key below.
description
Portrait of a European colonist dressed as a native American of the Delaware Indians. Wearing a feathered headdress, wampum belt, gorget, and moccasins and carrying a gun or musket and a scalping knife, the man smokes a hatchet pipe and stands before a group of dancers and men paddling a canoe. Items in the image are numbered for identification in key below.
Description
false
Source creator:
Williamson, Peter, 1730-1799
source_creator
Williamson, Peter, 1730-1799
Source creator
false
Source Title:
French and Indian cruelty: exemplified in the life, and various viscissitudes of fortune, of Peter Williamson ...
source_title
French and Indian cruelty: exemplified in the life, and various viscissitudes of fortune, of Peter Williamson ...
Source Title
false
Source place of publication:
London
source_place_of_publication
London
Source place of publication
false
Source publisher:
Printed for the unfortunate author, and sold by R. Griffiths, opposite Somerset-House in the Strand
source_publisher
Printed for the unfortunate author, and sold by R. Griffiths, opposite Somerset-House in the Strand
Source publisher
false
Source date:
1759
source_date
1759
Source date
false
notes:
Williamson wrote of his capture by a professional gang in Aberdeen, Scotland, his sale in America, and subsequent capture by the Delaware Indians. He successfully prosecuted his kidnappers, compiled the first city directory of Edinburgh, established the first penny post there and he kept a tavern where he was known as Indian Peter. The details of his account have been questioned by scholars, but his narrative was popular at the time and served as a model for other captivity narratives. The British and French, realizing the esteem with which Indians held the pipe, began to manufacture metal trade hatchet pipes or tomahawk pipes in the eighteenth century. This image may have been copied from Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix, A voyage to North-America, Paris, 1744; see also image in Charlevoix, Voyage, Dublin, 1766.
notes
Williamson wrote of his capture by a professional gang in Aberdeen, Scotland, his sale in America, and subsequent capture by the Delaware Indians. He successfully prosecuted his kidnappers, compiled the first city directory of Edinburgh, established the first penny post there and he kept a tavern where he was known as Indian Peter. The details of his account have been questioned by scholars, but his narrative was popular at the time and served as a model for other captivity narratives. The British and French, realizing the esteem with which Indians held the pipe, began to manufacture metal trade hatchet pipes or tomahawk pipes in the eighteenth century. This image may have been copied from Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix, A voyage to North-America, Paris, 1744; see also image in Charlevoix, Voyage, Dublin, 1766.
notes
false
Time Period:
1751-1800
time_period
1751-1800
Time Period
false
References:
http://www.newberry… (Feb. 2005)
references_
http://www.newberry.org/nl/collections/ProbAmInHist.html (Feb. 2005)
References
false
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
owner_and_copyright
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
Owner and copyright
false
geographic area:
North America
geographic_areas
North America
geographic area
false
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
subject_groups
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area
false
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
subject_groups
Indigenous peoples
Subject Area
false
Subject headings:
Captivity narratives
subject_heads
Captivity narratives
Subject headings
false