Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Armi degli Orinochesi

Accession number: 
06826
Record number: 
06826-5
JCB call number: 
H780 G474s
Image title: 
Armi degli Orinochesi
Creator 1: 
L. Guerrini
Creator 1 role: 
inv. e dis.
Creator 2: 
F. Faccenda
Creator 2 role: 
incise
Place image published: 
[Rome]
Image publisher: 
[Luigi Perego]
Image date: 
[1781]
Image function: 
fold-out plate 4; vol. 2, following p. 237
Technique: 
engraving
Image dimension height: 
19.7 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width: 
25 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height: 
21.2 cm.
Page dimension width: 
28 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
Italian
Description: 
Native Americans prepare to go to war. Includes soldiers with bows and arrows, women and children weeping and lamenting their departure, dwellings, and a man playing a musical instrument [drum]. Items in the image are numbered.
Source creator: 
Gilii, Filippo Salvadore, 1721-1789
Source Title: 
Saggio di storia americana o Sia storia naturale, civile, e sacra de regni, e delle provincie spagnuole di terra-ferma nell'America meridionale ... Tomo II
Source place of publication: 
Roma [Rome]
Source publisher: 
Per Luigi Perego erede Salvioni stampator Vaticano nella Sapienza
Source date: 
MDCCLXXXI [1781]
Time Period: 
1751-1800
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: 
Indians of South America--Orinoco River Valley (Venezuela and Colombia)