Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Aztec idol or god]
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Accession number:
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01631
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Record number:
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01631-79
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JCB call number:
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F671 M765n / 1-SIZE
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Image title:
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[Aztec idol or god]
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Place image published:
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[Amsterdam]
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Image publisher:
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[Jacob Meurs]
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Image date:
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[1671]
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Image function:
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illustration; p. 223
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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12.7 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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16.6 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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31.5 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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19.4 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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Mexican idol or god holding a smoking mirror in one hand and a shield with arrows in the other. Wearing a feathered headdress and ornaments, the idol is seated before a curtain decorated with skulls and bones. Native Americans kneel before the figure.
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Source creator:
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Montanus, Arnoldus, 1625?-1683
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Source Title:
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De Nieuwe en onbekende Weereld: of Beschryving van America
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Source place of publication:
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t'Amsterdam
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Source publisher:
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By Jacob Meurs Boek-verkooper en Plaet-snyder, op de Kaisars-graf, schuin over de wester-markt, in de stad Meurs
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Source date:
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1671
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notes:
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Tezcatlipoca, or "Smoking Mirror," was an omnipresent and omnipotent god, the god of the night sky and memory in the Aztec pantheon.
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Time Period:
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1651-1700
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired in 1847.
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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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Aztecs--Religion
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Subject headings:
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Indians of Mexico--Rites and ceremonies
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