Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Dancers at the court]

Accession number: 
08984
Record number: 
08984-49
JCB call number: 
F706 A111n
Image title: 
[Dancers at the court]
Place image published: 
[Leiden]
Image publisher: 
[Pieter van der Aa]
Image date: 
[1707]
Image function: 
fold-out plate; vol. 9, [part 1], following p. 44
Technique: 
engraving
Image dimension height: 
12.7 cm.
Image dimension width: 
16.5 cm.
Page dimension height: 
17.3 cm.
Page dimension width: 
22 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Description: 
Dancers perform for an Aztec court. Men stand on stilts, form pyramids with their bodies, walk on sticks balanced between two other men. Some men lie in the foreground. Includes king or ruler in feathered headdress, dwellings, and balls.
Source Title: 
Naaukeurige versameling der gedenk-waardigste zee en land-reysen na Oost en West-Indiën ... zedert het jaar 1519 tot 1521
Source place of publication: 
In het ligt gegeven te Leyden [Leiden]
Source publisher: 
Door Pieter Vander Aa, boekverkoper in de St. Pieters Koor-steeg, in Plato.
Source date: 
1707
notes: 
Text discusses dancing found at the court of Montezuma or Moctezuma. This image follows the special title page for Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Heldhaftige reys-togten, te land door Ferdinand Cortes, in Nieuw-Spanje ... , Leyden, 1707. This collection of voyages consists of 127 parts, each having a special title page, separate pagination, and register. The voyages covering the period from 1246 to 1696 are arranged chronologically.
Time Period: 
1701-1750
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired before 1849.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
Subject Area: 
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings: 
Aztec dance
Subject headings: 
Indians of Mexico--Social life and customs
Subject headings: 
Indian dance--Mexico