COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Accession number:
09230
Record number:
09230-7
JCB call number:
E718 F896r
Image title:
[Native American and raft]
Place image published:
[Amsterdam]
Image publisher:
[R. & G. Wetstein]
Image date:
[1718]
Image function:
plate 16; following p. 106
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
16.9 cm.
Image dimension width:
12.5 cm.
Page dimension height:
19.8 cm.
Page dimension width:
15.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Dutch
Description:
Native American paddling a raft. Also includes a view of the boat from the front, a diagram of the animal skin bladders and balsa rods which make up the raft and the manner in which it was put together, a penguin, and a seal or walrus on land. Also includes inset diagram of raft and method of stitching. Items in the image are lettered for identification in key below.
Source creator:
Frézier, Amédée François, 1682-1773
Source Title:
[Relation du voyage de la mer du Sud aux côtes du Chili, du Pérou, et du Brésil, fait pendant les années 1712, 1713, & 1714. Dutch] Reis-Beschryving door de Zuid-Zee langs de Kusten van Chili, Peru en Brazil
Source place of publication:
Te Amsterdam
Source publisher:
By R. en G. Wetstein
Source date:
1718
notes:
This image derived from Frézier, Relation du voyage de la mer du sud aux côtes du Chily et du Perou, Paris, 1716.
Time Period:
1701-1750
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1870.
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 Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Boats and boating
Subject headings:
Indigenous peoples of South America
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