Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Native Americans]

Accession number: 
01631
Record number: 
01631-67
JCB call number: 
F671 M765n / 1-SIZE
Image title: 
[Native Americans]
Place image published: 
[Amsterdam]
Image publisher: 
[Jacob Meurs]
Image date: 
[1671]
Image function: 
illustration; p. 138
Technique: 
engraving
Image dimension height: 
12.8 cm.
Image dimension width: 
16.5 cm.
Page dimension height: 
31.5 cm.
Page dimension width: 
19.4 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Description: 
Native American man and woman shown with various headdresses including a hand on top of the head, a bird's wing, and feathers. Also includes war club, furs worn as clothing, a bear's head worn as an ornament, bow and arrows.
Source creator: 
Montanus, Arnoldus, 1625?-1683
Source Title: 
De Nieuwe en onbekende Weereld: of Beschryving van America
Source place of publication: 
t'Amsterdam
Source publisher: 
By Jacob Meurs Boek-verkooper en Plaet-snyder, op de Kaisars-graf, schuin over de wester-markt, in de stad Meurs
Source date: 
1671
notes: 
Text describes the native Americans of Virginia.
Time Period: 
1651-1700
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired in 1847.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area: 
North America
Subject Area: 
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings: 
Indians of North America--Clothing