Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Native American boats]

Accession number: 
04878
Record number: 
04878-21
JCB call number: 
J752 A394g
Image title: 
[Native American boats]
Place image published: 
[Halle]
Image publisher: 
[Johann Justinus Gebauer]
Image date: 
[1752]
Image function: 
plate 28; vol. 1, following p. 372
Technique: 
etching
Image dimension height: 
19.1 cm.
Image dimension width: 
14.2 cm.
Page dimension height: 
24.2 cm.
Page dimension width: 
18.8 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Description: 
At top is a native American or Inuit kayak surrounded by images of Egyptian river craft made out of paper. At bottom, the kayak is a raft made out of dried gourds. The other boat, a balsa raft, is paddled by a native American of Peru. Items are numbered for identification in preface.
Source Title: 
Algemeine Geschichte de Länder und Völker von America. Erster Theil. Nebst einer Vorrede Siegmund Jacob Baumgartens ...
Source place of publication: 
Halle
Source publisher: 
bey Johann Justinus Gebauer
Source date: 
1752
notes: 
This image is derived from Joseph François Lafitau, Moeurs des sauvages ameriquains, vol. 2, plate 9. The image of Peruvian boats are, in turn, derived from Theodor de Bry's America. Pt. 9, plate 2. Compiled and translated from several sources by Johann Friedrich Schröter, with a preface by Siegmund Jakob Baumgarten. Schröter was secretary to the Privy Council of Magdeburg and had served for some years as a missionary in Canada.
Time Period: 
1751-1800
References: 
http://www.hrkahnbooks.com/Catalogues/Cat67/Html/67pg31d117to119.html (Oct. 2005)
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired in 1963.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area: 
Arctic
geographic area: 
Spanish America
Subject Area: 
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area: 
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings: 
Indians of South America--Boats