Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [De los ritos y sacrificios q estos Indios tiene: y quan gra des carniceros fonde comer carne humana]

Accession number: 
0840
Record number: 
0840-002
JCB call number: 
B553 C569p /1-SIZE
Image title: 
[De los ritos y sacrificios q estos Indios tiene: y quan gra des carniceros fonde comer carne humana]
Place image published: 
[Seville]
Image publisher: 
[Martin de Montesdoca]
Image date: 
1553
Image function: 
illustration; verso of leaf xxii
Technique: 
woodcut
Image dimension height: 
7.5 cm.
Image dimension width: 
7.3 cm.
Page dimension height: 
27.5 cm.
Page dimension width: 
18.5 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
Spanish
Description: 
Human sacrifice. Native American plunges a knife into another's chest. Two bodies hang, a statue of an idol or devil on a pillar stands at left.
Source creator: 
Cieza de León, Pedro de, 1518-1554
Source Title: 
[La chronica de Peru. Part 1] Parte Primera dela chronica del Peru
Source place of publication: 
Seville
Source publisher: 
[En casa de Martin de Montesdoca]
Source date: 
1553
notes: 
Image title taken from chapter title.
Time Period: 
1492-1600
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired before 1866
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 headings: 
Peru--History--Conquest, 1522-1548