Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Opfer welches die Floridaner der sonne mit ihrer erst-gebuhrt bringen.

Accession number: 
34079
Record number: 
34079-10
JCB call number: 
J777 P985s
Image title: 
Opfer welches die Floridaner der sonne mit ihrer erst-gebuhrt bringen.
Creator 1: 
Zell
Creator 1 role: 
Sc:
Place image published: 
[Frankfurt am Main]
Image publisher: 
[Johann Gottlieb Garbe]
Image date: 
[1777]
Image function: 
fold-out plate 10; vol. 1, at end
Technique: 
engraving
Image dimension height: 
16.3 cm.
Image dimension width: 
13.7 cm.
Page dimension height: 
20.3 cm.
Page dimension width: 
17 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Description: 
Native American woman weeps before a tree trunk while another woman holds a baby. Other women dance around the woman and baby. A ruler or chief sits on a bench with other men nearby. Includes war clubs.
Source creator: 
Purmann, Johann Georg, 1733-1813
Source Title: 
Sitten und Meinungen der Wilden in America
Source place of publication: 
Frankfurth am Mayn [Frankfurt am Main]
Source publisher: 
bey Johann Gottlieb Garbe
Source date: 
1777
notes: 
This image is derived from the second part of Theodor de Bry's America. Pt. 2, plate 34, and describes how the natives sacrifice their first-born son to their chief in Florida. The mother whose child it is weeps in front of the tree trunk upon which the sacrifice is to occur. The engraver may be Johann Michael Zell, 1740-1815.
Time Period: 
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired before 1871.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area: 
Spanish America
Subject Area: 
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area: 
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings: 
Child sacrifice
Subject headings: 
Human sacrifice
Subject headings: 
Indians of North America--Rites and ceremonies