MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
94-17
Record number:
94-17-8
JCB call number:
J819 W678u
Image title:
[Figs. 194 & 195. Mexican Indians. Fig. 196 Carib Indians. ]
Place image published:
[Vienna]
Image date:
[1819]
Image function:
fold-out plate 53; vol. 1
Technique:
engraving, hand-coloring
Image dimension height:
14.4 cm.
Image dimension width:
8.6 cm.
Page dimension height:
19 cm.
Page dimension width:
9.7 cm.
Materials medium:
ink, colors
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Figures 194 & 195) Native American man, woman, and children from Mexico. Also includes men wearing a poncho or blanket and another man wearing a skin cloak, hat, and sandals. Figure 196) Native American men, women, and child from the Guianas or Surinam. Includes tattoos [?], sword, man smoking a pipe, face ornament or labret, basket, arrows, and man wearing an animal skin.
Source creator:
Wilhelm, Gottlieb Tobias, 1755-1811
Source Title:
Unterhaltungen über den Menschen ... Erster Theil
Source place of publication:
Wien [Vienna]
Source publisher:
gedruckt auf Kosten des Herausgebers
Source date:
1819
notes:
Images of the Mexican Indians derived from Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, Costumes civils actuels de tous les peuples connus ..., Paris, 1788. Text compares the natives in Figure 196 by showing the black Indians of Saint Vincent and the Caribs of the Guianas.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.
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:
Caribbean Islands
geographic area:
Guianas
geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Indians of the West Indies
Subject headings:
Indians of Mexico
Subject headings:
Indians of South America--Suriname

[Figs. 194 & 195. Mexican Indians. Fig. 196 Carib Indians. ]

     
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[Figs. 194 & 195. Mexican Indians. Fig. 196 Carib Indians. ]