Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Native Americans greet Europeans]
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Accession number:
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08211
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Record number:
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08211-6
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JCB call number:
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H704 B479g1
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Image title:
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[Native Americans greet Europeans]
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Place image published:
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[Leiden]
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Image publisher:
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[Pieter van der Aa]
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Image date:
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[1704]
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Image function:
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fold-out plate; part 1, following p. 64
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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13 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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17.6 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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20.9 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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27.9 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink
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Materials support:
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paper
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Description:
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Amerigo Vespucci and his men approach giant native American women who stand in a dwelling. Giant native American men with clubs advance on the Europeans. In the background the natives drive the soldiers back to their ship. Includes scene of naval warfare.
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Source creator:
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Benzoni, Girolamo, b. 1519
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Source Title:
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[Historia del mondo nuovo. Dutch] De gedenkwaardige West-Indise voyagien, gedaan door Christoffel Columbus, Americus Vesputius en Lodewijck Hennepin ....
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Source place of publication:
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Te Leyden [Leiden]
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Source publisher:
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By Pieter van der Aa
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Source date:
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1704
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notes:
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Text describes Vespucci and his men landing on the island of present-day Curaçao where they found giant women who invited them into their dwelling. As the Spanish were trying to convince the women to return to their ship, men, even taller than the women, came and forced the Spanish to return to their ship. This image is derived from Theodor de Bry's America, Pt. 10, plate 6. The first part of this book is translated from Benzoni, Historia del mondo nuovo, Venice, 1565 (first two voyages). The second part is Louis Hennepin, Nouvelle decouverte, Utrecht, 1697.
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Time Period:
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1701-1750
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired before 1870.
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Owner and copyright:
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©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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Subject Area:
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Artifacts, industry, and human activities
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Subject Area:
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Indigenous peoples
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Subject headings:
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Indians of the West Indies--First contact with Europeans
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