Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Pearl fishing]
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Accession number:
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03464
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Record number:
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03464-6
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JCB call number:
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F624 I44w
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Image title:
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[Pearl fishing]
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Place image published:
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[Amsterdam]
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Image publisher:
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[Broer Janszoon & Jacob Pieterszoon Wachter]
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Image date:
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[1624]
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Image function:
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illustration, p. 114
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Technique:
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woodcut
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Image dimension height:
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6.1 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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9.5 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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19.6 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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15.7 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink
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Materials support:
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paper
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Description:
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Native Americans harvest oysters. Includes men dumping oysters from baskets onto the ground, boats, and divers being helped into boats by means of ropes.
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Source creator:
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Inga, Athanasium, pseud.?
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Source Title:
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West-Indische spieghel ...
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Source place of publication:
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t'Amstelredam [Amsterdam]
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Source publisher:
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By Broer Iansz. ende Iacob Pietersz. Wachter, Boeckvercooper op den Dam inde Wachter.
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Source date:
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1624
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notes:
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Text describes discovery by Christopher Columbus on his third trip to the Americas of a native American tribe near the Gulf of Paria and the island of Cubagua (between present-day Trinidad and Venezuela) who collected pearl oysters. Pearls were one of the items that Columbus was specifically asked to find. The work was supposedly written by a native Peruvian from Cuzco.
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Time Period:
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1601-1650
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired before 1866.
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Owner and copyright:
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©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
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Spanish America
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Subject Area:
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Artifacts, industry, and human activities
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Subject Area:
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Indigenous peoples
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Subject headings:
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Indians of South America
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Subject headings:
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Pearl industry and trade--Venezuela
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