Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Aovai vel Ahovay]
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Accession number:
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93-46
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Record number:
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93-46-4
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JCB call number:
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G655 W928m / 2-SIZE
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Image title:
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[Aovai vel Ahovay]
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Place image published:
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[Leiden]
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Image publisher:
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[Elsevier]
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Image date:
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[1655]
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Image function:
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illustration; p. 185
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Technique:
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woodcut
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Image dimension height:
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9.8 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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6.8 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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36.1 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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39.2 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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Native American girdle made from the nuts of a Brazilian tree.
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Source creator:
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Worm, Ole, 1588-1654
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Source Title:
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Museum Wormianum. Seu, Historia rerum rariorum ...
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Source place of publication:
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Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]
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Source publisher:
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apud Iohannem Elsevirivm, Acad. typograph.
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Source date:
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M DC LV. [1655]
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notes:
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This nut and the Brazilian ornament illustrated here may be derived from illustrations of nuts from the Brazilian tree, Cerbera ahovai, found in accounts of earlier museums. See Basilius Besler, Gazophylacium Rerum Naturalium e regno Vegetabili, Animali et Minerali depromptarum, nunquam hactenus in lucem editarum, fidelis cum figuris aeneis ad vivum incisis repraesentatio ... [Nuremberg], 1642 [described in Catalogue 283, Bruce Marshall Rare Books and Antiquariaat Junk B.V.] Popular in Wunderkammer or cabinet museums, the Ahovai-nut or cannibal-nut was first mentioned in travel reports of Hans Staden, Jean de Lery, and André Thevet.Worm, a medical doctor and polymath, collected many types of objects, especially related to natural history and ethnography, which he arranged according to his own system. His museum became one of the great attractions of Copenhagen.Image title from text.
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Time Period:
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1651-1700
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References:
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http://www.polybiblio.com/watbooks/2268.html; http://www.arts.ed.ac.uk/chb/matcult2005/abstracts/Session%206/A/Dominik%20Collet%20-%20Fructus%20Ahovai%20the%20cannibal%20nut.pdf (June 2006)
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired in 1993.
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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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geographic area:
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Brazil
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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 South America--Brazil--Clothing
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Subject headings:
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Natural history--Brazil
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Subject headings:
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Botany--Brazil
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