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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
0654
Record number:
0654-008
JCB call number:
J558 S776w
Image title:
[Chiefs assemble during the evening]
Image publisher:
[C. Plantin]
Image date:
[1558]
Image function:
illustration; XXX Capittel
Technique:
woodcut
Image dimension height:
4.8 cm.
Image dimension width:
6.7 cm.
Page dimension height:
13.5 cm.
Page dimension width:
8.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Native Americans stand outside of their dwellings in the night. Includes moon, bow, boat, and palisade.
Source creator:
Staden, Hans, ca. 1525-ca. 1576
Source Title:
[Warhaftige Historia und Beschreibung. Dutch] Warachtige historie ende beschriuinge eens lants in America ghelegen, vviens invvoonders vvilt, naeckt, seer godloos, ende vvreede menschen eters sijn ...
Source place of publication:
Tantvverpen [Antwerp]
Source publisher:
By Christoffel Plantijn, inde[n] gulden eenhooren
Source date:
1558
notes:
Text describes how the chiefs assembled during the evening in the moonlight. Hans Staden was a German soldier who traveled twice to Brazil on Portuguese ships. On his second trip in 1522, he was shipwrecked and captured by the Tupinamba, also known as the Tuppin Imba or Tupi, a cannibalistic Brazilian tribe.
Time Period:
1492-1600
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1846.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Brazil
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Tupinamba Indians

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