COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
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JCB Archive of Early American Images
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Accession number:
17183
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17183
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Record number:
17183-1
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17183-1
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JCB call number:
J525 F912u / 1-SIZE
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J525 F912u / 1-SIZE
JCB call number
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Image title:
[Cannibals on a Caribbean island]
image_title
[Cannibals on a Caribbean island]
Image title
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Place image published:
[Strasbourg]
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[Strasbourg]
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false
Image publisher:
[Johannes Grieninger]
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[Johannes Grieninger]
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false
Image date:
[1525]
image_date
[1525]
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Image function:
illustration; leaf XVI [16] recto
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illustration; leaf XVI [16] recto
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Technique:
woodcut, hand coloring
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woodcut, hand coloring
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Image dimension height:
10.5 cm.
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10.5 cm.
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Image dimension width:
14.4 cm.
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14.4 cm.
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Page dimension height:
28.8 cm.
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28.8 cm.
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Page dimension width:
19.4 cm.
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19.4 cm.
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Materials medium:
ink, colors
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ink, colors
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Materials support:
paper
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paper
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Description:
Dog-headed cannibals butcher people on a kind of butcher's block. One dog-headed man leads a llama[?] with a victim tied to it. Built environment includes dwelling.
description
Dog-headed cannibals butcher people on a kind of butcher's block. One dog-headed man leads a llama[?] with a victim tied to it. Built environment includes dwelling.
Description
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Source creator:
Fries, Lorenz, ca. 1490-1531
source_creator
Fries, Lorenz, ca. 1490-1531
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false
Source Title:
Uslegung der Mercarthen oder Cartha marina ...
source_title
Uslegung der Mercarthen oder Cartha marina ...
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false
Source place of publication:
Getruckt zü Strassburg [Strasbourg]
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Getruckt zü Strassburg [Strasbourg]
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false
Source publisher:
von Johannes Grieninger, vnd vollendet vff vnser Lieben Frawen Abent der Geburt.
source_publisher
von Johannes Grieninger, vnd vollendet vff vnser Lieben Frawen Abent der Geburt.
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false
Source date:
[1525]
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[1525]
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notes:
Text notes that the people of these islands discovered by Columbus were naked and decorated themselves with parrot feathers. They lived in dwellings of wood covered with palm branches.The idea that cannibals were somehow related to dogs may have come from Columbus' entry in his log: "All the people I have encountered up until this time greatly fear the people of Caniba of Canima . . . The Indians with me continued to show great fear . . . insisting that the people of Bohío had only one eye and a face of a dog, and they fear being eaten."Fries was trained as a medical doctor. After settling in Strasbourg around 1519 he became an associate of the Strasbourg printer and publisher Johann Grüninger, an associate of the St. Die group of scholars formed by, among others, Walter Lud, Martin Ringmann and Martin Waldseemuller.This book was designed to accompany: Carta marina, the author's version of the Waldseemüller marine chart.Publication statement from colophon.Cf. #07418-1 for a later version.
notes
Text notes that the people of these islands discovered by Columbus were naked and decorated themselves with parrot feathers. They lived in dwellings of wood covered with palm branches.The idea that cannibals were somehow related to dogs may have come from Columbus' entry in his log: "All the people I have encountered up until this time greatly fear the people of Caniba of Canima . . . The Indians with me continued to show great fear . . . insisting that the people of Bohío had only one eye and a face of a dog, and they fear being eaten."Fries was trained as a medical doctor. After settling in Strasbourg around 1519 he became an associate of the Strasbourg printer and publisher Johann Grüninger, an associate of the St. Die group of scholars formed by, among others, Walter Lud, Martin Ringmann and Martin Waldseemuller.This book was designed to accompany: Carta marina, the author's version of the Waldseemüller marine chart.Publication statement from colophon.Cf. #07418-1 for a later version.
notes
false
Time Period:
1492-1600
time_period
1492-1600
Time Period
false
References:
http://muse.jhu.edu… http://www.mapforum… (Oct. 2007)
references_
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/new_literary_history/v030/30.2klarer.html#fig01; http://www.mapforum.com/08/8fries.htm (Oct. 2007)
References
false
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1936.
provenance_or_donor
Acquired in 1936.
Provenance/Donor
false
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
owner_and_copyright
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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false
geographic area:
Caribbean Islands
geographic_areas
Caribbean Islands
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false
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
subject_groups
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area
false
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
subject_groups
Indigenous peoples
Subject Area
false
Subject headings:
Cannibalism
subject_heads
Cannibalism
Subject headings
false
Subject headings:
Indigenous peoples
subject_heads
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings
false