MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
94-17
Record number:
94-17-13
JCB call number:
J819 W678u
Image title:
[Fig. 132. Burial practices of the natives of Venezuela.]
Place image published:
[Vienna]
Image date:
[1819]
Image function:
fold-out plate 51; vol. 3
Technique:
engraving, hand-coloring
Image dimension height:
8.6 cm.
Image dimension width:
14.4 cm.
Page dimension height:
19 cm.
Page dimension width:
9.7 cm.
Materials medium:
ink, colors
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Native American men wearing feathered headdresses drink the powdered bones of men. In the background a body or corpse is burned on a pyre. Includes bowl, snake [?], drinking vessels, torches, and bowl.
Source creator:
Wilhelm, Gottlieb Tobias, 1755-1811
Source Title:
Unterhaltungen über den Menschen ... Dritter Theil
Source place of publication:
Wien [Vienna]
Source publisher:
gedruckt auf Kosten des Herausgebers
Source date:
1819
notes:
The Yanomami of Venezuelan Amazonian forest burn their dead and crush the bones remaining in the funeral pyre into ash powder which they then drink to internalize their ancestors' power.Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian clergyman and naturalist in Augsburg. This book, an encyclopedic overview representing scientific knowledge of the time, included mankind in its delineation of natural history.Image placed horizontally on page.
Time Period:
1801-1850
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1994.
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:
Indians of South America--Venezuela--Funeral customs and rites

[Fig. 132. Burial practices of the natives of Venezuela.]

     
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[Fig. 132. Burial practices of the natives of Venezuela.]