Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Native American woman offers a hand to a European to eat.]
|
Accession number:
|
03662
|
|
Record number:
|
03662-3
|
|
JCB call number:
|
E688 M688w
|
|
Image title:
|
[Native American woman offers a hand to a European to eat.]
|
|
Place image published:
|
[Lüneburg]
|
|
Image publisher:
|
[Johann Georg Lipper]
|
|
Image date:
|
[1688]
|
|
Image function:
|
plate 2; following p. 54
|
|
Technique:
|
engraving
|
|
Image dimension height:
|
16.2 cm.
|
|
Image dimension width:
|
12.2 cm.
|
|
Page dimension height:
|
20.1 cm.
|
|
Page dimension width:
|
14.8 cm.
|
|
Materials medium:
|
ink
|
|
Materials support:
|
paper
|
|
Description:
|
Native American woman cooks human limbs over a fire. She offers a hand to a European to eat. Includes scene of cannibalism, feathered headdresses, hammocks, war club, and boat.
|
|
Source creator:
|
Mocquet, Jean, b. 1575
|
|
Source Title:
|
[Voyages en Afrique, Asie, Indes orientales & occidentales. German] Wunderbare Jedoch Gründlich- und warhaffte beschichte und Reise Begebnisse in Africa, Asia, Ost- und West-Indien
|
|
Source place of publication:
|
Lüneburg
|
|
Source publisher:
|
In Verlegung Johann Georg Lippers
|
|
Source date:
|
1688
|
|
notes:
|
Mocquet was Keeper of the Cabinet of Rarities for several kings of France. In this book he describes five voyages he made between 1601 and 1612; here he describes cannibalistic practices of the Carib Indians of the Guianas and the country of Yapoco.
|
|
Time Period:
|
1651-1700
|
|
Provenance/Donor:
|
Acquired before 1866.
|
|
Owner and copyright:
|
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
|
|
geographic area:
|
Guianas
|
|
Subject Area:
|
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
|
|
Subject Area:
|
Indigenous peoples
|
|
Subject headings:
|
Indians of South America
|
|
Subject headings:
|
Cannibalism
|