MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
0656
Record number:
0656-12
JCB call number:
E558 T416sp
Image title:
[... d'vn arbre qu'ils appelent Hayri, duquel ils font leurs bastons de guerre.]
Place image published:
[Paris]
Image publisher:
[Heirs of Maurice de la Porte]
Image date:
[1558]
Image function:
plate; verso of leaf 72
Technique:
woodcut
Image dimension height:
8.6 cm.
Image dimension width:
11.1 cm.
Page dimension height:
20.3 cm.
Page dimension width:
15.3 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Native American chops down a palm tree with an axe or hatchet. Another man whittles a spear or arrow using a knife. Also includes dwelling, woman and child, and nuts on tree.
Source creator:
Thevet, André, 1502-1590
Source Title:
[Les singularitez de la France Antarctique] Les singularitez de la France Antarctique autrement nommée Amerique
Source place of publication:
A Paris
Source publisher:
Chez les heritiers de Maurice de la Porte, au Clos Bruneau, à l'ensiegne S. Claude
Source date:
1558
notes:
Text describes two Brazilian tribes that may be the Tupinamba, also known as the Tuppin Imba or Tupi, and the Margaia [Margageas and Thabaiares]. Text describes the sort of tree from which the Brazilians made their weapons. Title is from chapter title. Thevet, a Franciscan monk, traveled to Brazil with Nicolas Durand, chevalier de Villegagnon, stayed only ten weeks, and wrote Les singularitez from his own observations and those of others.
Time Period:
1492-1600
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1846.
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:
Flora and fauna
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Natural history--Brazil
Subject headings:
Indians of South America--Brazil

[... d'vn arbre qu'ils appelent Hayri, duquel ils font leurs bastons de guerre.]

     
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[... d'vn arbre qu'ils appelent Hayri, duquel ils font leurs bastons de guerre.]