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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
03575
Record number:
03575-1
JCB call number:
E665 M688v
Image title:
[La Figure A. B. Forme du combat entre les Caribes & les Caripous. Les Indiennes Caripounes vont ansi par les bois cherchant des fruits à manger: aucunes d'elles se peignent le corps par bandes auec le suc d'un fruict, pour estre plus belles.]
Place image published:
[Rouen]
Image publisher:
[Jacques Besongne]
Image date:
[1665]
Image function:
plate; p. [155]
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
15.6 cm.
Image dimension width:
9.1 cm.
Page dimension height:
16 cm.
Page dimension width:
9.8 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
French
Description:
[top] Scene of warfare between two native American groups, the Caribes and the Caripou. [bottom] Women and children going out to the woods to fetch fruit. Artifacts include bows and arrows, feathered headdresses, and baskets with fruit.
Source creator:
Mocquet, Jean, b.1575.
Source Title:
Voyages en Afrique, Asie, Indies orientales & occidentales.
Source place of publication:
A Roüen
Source publisher:
Chez Jacques Besongne, dans le Court du Palais
Source date:
M. DC. LXV [1665]
notes:
Mocquet, Keeper of the Cabinet of Rarities of the King of France, made the voyage to the Guianas in 1604. Here he describes tribes near the Cayenne River, perhaps the Carib and Caripuna (a Guiana Tupi group). Image title from facing page.
Time Period:
1651-1700
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1866.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
Guianas
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Indians of South America
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[La Figure A. B. Forme du combat entre les Caribes & les Caripous. Les Indiennes Caripounes vont ansi par les bois cherchant des fruits à manger: aucunes d'elles se peignent le corps par bandes auec le suc d'un fruict, pour estre plus belles.]