COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Accession number:
06343
Record number:
06343-3
JCB call number:
D777 F337n2
Image title:
[Native Americans at a council of war]
Place image published:
[Bern]
Image publisher:
[Beat Ludwig Walthard]
Image date:
[1777]
Image function:
plate; following p. 166
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
12.1 cm.
Image dimension width:
6.5 cm.
Page dimension height:
17.8 cm.
Page dimension width:
10.9 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Native American men, women, and children stand around a chief or sachem who holds a ceremonial stick. Includes feathered headdresses, ornaments, and dwelling.
Source creator:
Fenning, Daniel
Source Title:
[New system of geography. Book 4 and Appendix. German ] Neue Erdbeschreibung von Amerika ... Erster Band
Source place of publication:
Bern
Source publisher:
bey Beat Ludwig Walthard
Source date:
1777
notes:
Text describes how the Indians of Canada exhort each other to declare war.
Time Period:
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1871.
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--Warfare
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