MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
04878
Record number:
04878-6
JCB call number:
J752 A394g
Image title:
[Native American religious ceremonies]
Place image published:
[Halle]
Image publisher:
[Johann Justinus Gebauer]
Image date:
[1752]
Image function:
plate 7; vol. 1, following p. 87
Technique:
etching
Image dimension height:
19.1 cm.
Image dimension width:
14.3 cm.
Page dimension height:
24.2 cm.
Page dimension width:
18.8 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Religious ceremonies involving sacrifice are shown. At top, a baby is presented to be sacrificed while native Americans dance and the mother mourns. A native American king and European gentleman look on. At bottom, native Americans dance around a deer on a post while a native American king and European gentleman look on and a man makes an offering at an altar. Cultural artifacts include clubs, sword, and spears. At bottom left, a woman makes an offering to a post.
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:
Described in preface as: 1. Sacrifice of the firstborn by the Floridians. 2. Sacrifice of the stag in Florida. 3. A Carib offers cassava bread at a post symbolizing the deities. This image is derived from Joseph François Lafitau, Moeurs des sauvages ameriquains, vol. 1, plate 7, which in turn is derived from Theodor de Bry's America. Pt. 2 , plates 34 & 35. 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.hrkahnbo… (Oct. 2005)
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1963.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Caribbean Islands
geographic area:
North America
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Indians of the West Indies--Rites and ceremonies
Subject headings:
Indians of North America--Rites and ceremonies

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