MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
08918
Record number:
08918-1
JCB call number:
J590 B915v GVL 3.1b / 2-SIZE
Image title:
[Quid nomine religionis apud Barbaros Americanos veniat ...]
Place image published:
[Frankfurt am Main]
Image publisher:
[Theodor de Bry]
Image date:
[1592]
Image function:
illustration, p. 223
Technique:
engraving, hand coloring
Image dimension height:
16.2 cm.
Image dimension width:
19.5 cm.
Page dimension height:
32.5 cm.
Page dimension width:
22.7 cm.
Materials medium:
ink, colors
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Religious practices of native Americans. Two Europeans stand in foreground arguing with native Americans. Devils in the forms of animals torment natives. Includes dwellings and settlement, ship, sword, and whips or switches.
Source Title:
[America. Pt 3. Latin] Americae tertia pars memorabile[m] provinciae Brasiliae historiam contine[n]s ...
Source place of publication:
Francofurtensis [Frankfurt am Main]
Source publisher:
Theodori de Bry
Source date:
MDXCII [1592]
notes:
Text describes how the Tupinamba, also known as the Tuppin Imba or Tupi, believed that the souls of those who had not been good or who did not fight bravely were tormented by devils and lived in eternal pain and horror. The natives often saw the devil in the form of animals, birds, or other horrifying creatures. The two Europeans in the foreground are Christians trying to convert the natives. This volume contains accounts of Staden's two voyages made to Brazil, 1546 to 1548 and 1549 to 1555, and Jean de Léry's voyage to Brazil made from 1555 to 1558. De Bry included in this volume the account of Hans Staden, Wahrhaftige Historia ... in der Newenwelt America gelegen, Marburg, 1557, and Jean de Léry, Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Brésil, La Rochelle, 1578, as well as two letters by Nicolas Barré dated 1552. Image title taken from chapter title. Theodor de Bry's America. Pt. 3. Latin.
Time Period:
1492-1600
References:
Church, E.D. Discovery, 148
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1865.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Brazil
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Indians of South America--Brazil--Religion

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