Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Ruse de Quoniambech.]

Accession number: 
07598
Record number: 
07598-039
JCB call number: 
E575 T418c / 2-SIZE
Image title: 
[Ruse de Quoniambech.]
Place image published: 
[Paris]
Image publisher: 
[Pierre L'Huillier]
Image date: 
[1575]
Image function: 
illustration; vol. 2, recto leaf 952
Technique: 
woodcut
Image dimension height: 
14.3 cm.
Image dimension width: 
16.4 cm.
Page dimension height: 
36 cm.
Page dimension width: 
23.8 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Description: 
The native American ruler or king, Quoniambec or Cunhambebe, shoots two muskets or guns at the enemy. Includes bows, arrows, feathered headdresses and ornaments, and war clubs.
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: 
Cunhambebe's ruse was to face away from his enemies with two muskets on his shoulders. As soon as he felt his enemies approach, he ordered one of his men to fire the guns. Thevet's account emphasizes the chief's giant size and great strength.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: 
Indians of South America--Warfare--Brazil