COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
07376
Record number:
07376-58
JCB call number:
B728 H564h / 2-SIZE
Image title:
Como Los Indios solemnizavan sus fiestas con atambores, vozinas ÿ Caracoles.
Place image published:
[Antwerp]
Image publisher:
[Juan Bautista Verdussen]
Image date:
[1728]
Image function:
plate; vol. 1, following p. 388
Technique:
etching
Image dimension height:
20.3 cm.
Image dimension width:
16.1 cm.
Page dimension height:
34.7 cm.
Page dimension width:
21.3 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Spanish
Description:
Native Americans worship before a many-headed god or idol and other idols in a temple. They offer gold and jewels and play music with musical instruments including drums. Also includes feathered headdresses and garments.
Source creator:
Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, d. 1625
Source Title:
[Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos] Historia general de las Indias Ocidentales ... Tomo primo
Source place of publication:
En Amberes [Antwerp]
Source publisher:
Por Juan Bautista Verdussen, Mercader de Libros
Source date:
M.D.CC.XXVIII [1728]
notes:
This image is derived from plate 24 in Theodor de Bry's America, Pt. 4, which describes the feast days of native Americans in Hispaniola. The cacique or chief would lead his people by beating a drum to the worship of their idol, a strange hydra-like creat
Time Period:
1701-1750
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired circa 1916.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Indians of the West Indies--Religion
Como Los Indios solemnizavan sus fiestas con atambores, vozinas ÿ Caracoles.
