MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
07598
Record number:
07598-036
JCB call number:
E575 T418c / 2-SIZE
Image title:
[Comme les sauvages rotisset leur ennemis.]
Place image published:
[Paris]
Image publisher:
[Pierre L'Huillier]
Image date:
[1575]
Image function:
illustration; vol. 2, recto leaf 946
Technique:
woodcut
Image dimension height:
8.5 cm.
Image dimension width:
11 cm.
Page dimension height:
36 cm.
Page dimension width:
23.8 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Native American prisoners of war are butchered and cooked over a grill. Includes scene of cannibalism and ax or hatchet.
Source creator:
Thevet, André, 1502-1590
Source Title:
La cosmographie vniuerselle ... Tome seconde
Source place of publication:
A Paris
Source publisher:
chez Pierre L'Huillier, rue Sainct Iaques, à l'Oliuier
Source date:
1575
notes:
Text describes how prisoners were eaten. This image is derived from Thevet, Les singularitez, Antwerp, 1558.Thevet, a Franciscan monk, traveled to Brazil with Nicolas Durand, chevalier de Villegagnon. He stayed only ten weeks, returning to France in 1556, and wrote Les singularitez de la France Antarctique from his own observations and those of others. As a result of the popularity of Les singularitez, Thevet received the position of cosmographer to the French court and wrote this book, an account of the known world.Title is from marginal gloss.
Time Period:
1492-1600
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1875.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Brazil
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Cannibalism--Brazil
Subject headings:
Indians of South America--Brazil

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