Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [top] Habits of the People of Chili in America. [bottom] Remarkable Serpents and Baboons of Gautimala [sic] in America.

Accession number: 
34352
Record number: 
34352-9
JCB call number: 
D770 D757n / 2-SIZE
Image title: 
[top] Habits of the People of Chili in America. [bottom] Remarkable Serpents and Baboons of Gautimala [sic] in America.
Place image published: 
[London]
Image publisher: 
[J. Cooke]
Image date: 
[1770]
Image function: 
plate; following p. 506
Technique: 
engraving
Image dimension height: 
24 cm.
Image dimension width: 
16.6 cm.
Page dimension height: 
35.9 cm.
Page dimension width: 
23 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
English
Description: 
[top] Native Americans from Chile. [bottom] Animals of Guatemala including three snakes, one a feathered serpent. Includes a baboon [?] and a sloth [?].
Source creator: 
Drake, Edward Cavendish
Source Title: 
A new universal collection of authentic and entertaining voyages and travels, from the earliest accounts to the present time ...
Source place of publication: 
London
Source publisher: 
Printed for J. Cooke, at Shakepear's Head, in Pater-Noster-Row
Source date: 
MDCCLXX [1770]
notes: 
The snake at right is possibly a coral snake. The snake in the middle resembles the so-called "feathered serpent" of the Aztec or Mexican people. The snake at left may be a rattlesnake. Baboons are native to Africa, this may be a howler monkey. The other animal resembles the three-toed sloth illustrated by Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Historia natvrae, Antwerp, 1635. Image may be derived from Arnoldus Montanus, De nieuwe en onbekende Weereld, Amsterdam, 1671.
Time Period: 
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired before 1874.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
Subject Area: 
Flora and fauna
Subject Area: 
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings: 
Natural history--Guatemala
Subject headings: 
Indians of South America--Chile