MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
02318
Record number:
02318-15
JCB call number:
B737 G216h / 1-SIZE
Image title:
[Native American artifacts]
Place image published:
[Amsterdam]
Image publisher:
[Jean Frederic Bernard]
Image date:
[1737]
Image function:
fold-out plate; vol. 2, following p. 250
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
20.5 cm.
Image dimension width:
16.9 cm.
Page dimension height:
27.9 cm.
Page dimension width:
22.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
French
Description:
Native American artifacts including wampum belts, wicker cage, tomahawk, war club or casse-tête, peace pipe or calumet, and another peace pipe of Virginians.
Source creator:
Vega, Garcilaso de la, 1539-1616
Source Title:
Histoire des Yncas rois du Perou, Depuis le premier Ynca Manco Capac ... jusqu'a Atahualpa dernier Ynca: ... Tome second
Source place of publication:
A Amsterdam
Source publisher:
Chez Jean Frederic Bernard
Source date:
MDCCXXXVII [1737]
notes:
The wicker cage was used to imprison young boys during initiation rites. The war club is an Iroquois weapon. The artist may be Bernard Picart, 1673-1733, a French painter, draughtsman, and engraver, who also worked in the Netherlands.
Time Period:
1701-1750
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1851.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
North America
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Indians of North America--Implements

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