Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Tomo Chachi Mico oder König Von Yamacran, und Tooanahowi Seines Bruders des Mico oder Königes Von Etichitas Sohn ...

Accession number: 
01623
Record number: 
01623-1
JCB call number: 
JA741 U77a
Image title: 
Tomo Chachi Mico oder König Von Yamacran, und Tooanahowi Seines Bruders des Mico oder Königes Von Etichitas Sohn ...
Creator 1: 
Willem Verelst
Creator 1 dates: 
d. 1756
Creator 1 role: 
pinxit.
Creator 2: 
Johann Jakob Kleinschmidt
Creator 2 dates: 
d. 1772
Place image published: 
[Halle]
Image publisher: 
[Wäysenhaus]
Image date: 
[1738]
Image function: 
frontispiece; vol. 1
Technique: 
engraving
Image dimension height: 
19.8 cm.
Image dimension width: 
15 cm.
Page dimension height: 
24.3 cm.
Page dimension width: 
16 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
German
Description: 
Portrait of Tomo Chachi Mico, a Lower Creek or Yamacraw chief, with tattooed chest and wearing furs, with his nephew, Tooanahowi, who holds his clan symbol, an eagle.
Source creator: 
Urlsperger, Samuel 1685-1772
Source Title: 
Erste Continuation der ausführlichen Nachricht von denen Saltzburgischen Emigranten, die sich in America niedergelassen haben ...
Source place of publication: 
Halle
Source publisher: 
In Verlegung der Wäysenhauses
Source date: 
MDCCXXXVIII [1738]
notes: 
Tomochachi assisted General James Edward Oglethorpe in establishing the British colony in Georgia. In 1734, he accompanied General Oglethorpe on a trip to London where his portrait was painted by Willem [William] Verelst.
Time Period: 
1701-1750
References: 
http://www.reeseco.com/cat245/245e.htm (July 2005)
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired before 1902.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area: 
North America
Subject Area: 
Indigenous peoples
Subject Area: 
Portraits
Subject headings: 
Georgia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Subject headings: 
Indians of North America--Georgia