MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
0656
Record number:
0656-28
JCB call number:
E558 T416sp
Image title:
[Co[m]me ces Canadie[n]s chasse[n]t le Cerf & autres bestes sauvages.]
Place image published:
[Paris]
Image publisher:
[Heirs of Maurice de la Porte]
Image date:
[1558]
Image function:
illustration; recto of leaf 151
Technique:
woodcut
Image dimension height:
8.5 cm.
Image dimension width:
10.9 cm.
Page dimension height:
20.3 cm.
Page dimension width:
15.3 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Native Americans hunt during the winter. Includes snowshoes and pole which is shoved down the throat of a wild pig or boar, and deer or stag.
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 the hunting methods of the native Americans of present-day Canada or New France. Title is from marginal gloss. 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:
North America
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Indians of North America--Hunting

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