Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Famiglia Indiana Caraiba.

Accession number: 
12841
Record number: 
12841-4
JCB call number: 
D818 S812v
Image title: 
Famiglia Indiana Caraiba.
Creator 1: 
Acqua
Creator 1 role: 
in.
Creator 2: 
Lazaretti
Creator 2 role: 
colori
Place image published: 
[Milan]
Image publisher: 
[Giambattista Sonzogno]
Image date: 
[1818]
Image function: 
plate 4; vol. 2, following p. 174
Technique: 
etching, hand coloring
Image dimension height: 
10.6 cm.
Image dimension width: 
6.5 cm.
Page dimension height: 
18.1 cm.
Page dimension width: 
10.7 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink, colors
Materials support: 
paper
Description: 
Native American man, woman, child, and baby. Includes bow and arrows, feathered headdress, parrot, body ornaments, and tattoos.
Source creator: 
Stedman, John Gabriel, 1744-1797
Source Title: 
[Narrative of a five years' expedition against the revolted Negroes of Surinam. Italian] Viaggio al Surinam e nell' interno della Guiana ...
Source place of publication: 
Milano [Milan]
Source publisher: 
Dalla tipografia di Giambattista Sonzogno
Source date: 
1818
notes: 
Both the Caribs and Arawaks inhabited Surinam, but the Caribs pushed the Arawaks out. They referred to themselves as the Kali'na.Stedman, a member of the Scots Brigade in the Netherlands, went to Surinam to help repress a revolt of former slaves. His book, translated into six languages, describes, among other things, the cruel treatment of slaves in that colony.His book was originally illustrated by William Blake, Francesco Bartolozzi, and others; those illustrations have been copied and slightly reinterpreted by the illustrator of this edition. The text of this edition is based on the 1798 French edition.The artist could be Cristoforo dall'Acqua, Austrian printmaker and draftsman, 1734-1787.Cf. John Stedman, Narrative, of a five years' expedition ... London, 1796 (06944-35).
Time Period: 
1801-1850
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired in 1920.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area: 
Guianas
Subject Area: 
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings: 
Arawak Indians
Subject headings: 
Indians of South America--Suriname