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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
32679
Record number:
32679-5
JCB call number:
E708 B439h
Image title:
[Coconut palm]
Place image published:
[Amsterdam]
Image publisher:
[Chez Pierre Humbert]
Image date:
[1708]
Image function:
plate; following p. 258
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
12.9 cm.
Image dimension width:
7.2 cm.
Page dimension height:
15.2 cm.
Page dimension width:
9 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Coconut palm tree with two native Americans next to it. Includes dwellings and small animal [rodent?] climbing the tree.
Source creator:
Bellegarde, M. l'abbé de (Jean Baptiste Morvan), 1648-1734
Source Title:
[Histoire universelle des voyages] Histoire universelle des voyages faits par mer & par terre, dans l'ancien & dans le nouveau monde. ...
Source place of publication:
A Amsterdam
Source publisher:
Chez Pierre Humbert.
Source date:
M. DCCVIII. [1708]
notes:
Cocos nucifera is the scientific name of the coconut palm tree. It is uncertain whether it is native to northwestern South America or to south Asia. Text notes that the native Americans use every part of the tree.Bellegarde was a clergyman, author, and translator. He translated Bartolomé de Las Casas.Sometimes attributed to Du Perier de Montfraisier.
Time Period:
1701-1750
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1960.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Caribbean Islands
geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Coconut palm

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