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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
0840
Record number:
0840-006
JCB call number:
B553 C569p /1-SIZE
Image title:
[Como antiguamente tuuiero vna esmeralda por dios en que dorauan los Indios de Manta: y otras cosas q ay q dezir destos indios]
Place image published:
[Seville]
Image publisher:
[Martin de Montesdoca]
Image date:
1553
Image function:
illustration; verso of leaf lxiii
Technique:
woodcut
Image dimension height:
7.3 cm.
Image dimension width:
7 cm.
Page dimension height:
27.5 cm.
Page dimension width:
18.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Spanish
Description:
Sacred stone of the native Americans of Manta, Ecuador, worshipped by a priest and supplicants.
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:
Cieza de Leon writes of the leader of Manta having an emerald of great size and value which the people worshipped. 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:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Indians of South America--Rites and ceremonies

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