MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
08984
Record number:
08984-69
JCB call number:
F706 A111n
Image title:
[Aztec burial ceremony]
Place image published:
[Leiden]
Image publisher:
[Pieter van der Aa]
Image date:
[1707]
Image function:
fold-out plate; vol. 10, [part 1], following p. 204
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
13.3 cm.
Image dimension width:
18 cm.
Page dimension height:
17.3 cm.
Page dimension width:
21 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Native American funerary rites and burial practices of the Aztecs or Mexicans. Includes feathered headdresses, vessels, and fire.
Source Title:
Naaukeurige versameling der gedenk-waardigste zee en land-reysen na Oost en West-Indiën ... zedert het jaar 1519 tot 1521
Source place of publication:
In het ligt gegeven te Leyden [Leiden]
Source publisher:
Door Pieter Vander Aa, boekverkoper in de St. Pieters Koor-steeg, in Plato.
Source date:
1707
notes:
Text discusses burial ceremony of a high-ranking cacique or native American ruler. Presents would be offered, and the corpse would be carried to a funeral pyre where the body would be burned.This image follows the special title page for Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Vervolg der roemwaardige zee- en land-reysen des dapperen Ferdinand Cortes ... , Leiden, 1706.This collection of voyages consists of 127 parts, each having a special title page, separate pagination, and register. The voyages covering the period from 1246 to 1696 are arranged chronologically.
Time Period:
1701-1750
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1849.
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:
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Mexico
Subject headings:
Aztec religion
Subject headings:
Indians of Mexico--Funeral customs and rites

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