Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Armes Offensives.

Accession number: 
07385
Record number: 
07385-55
JCB call number: 
E834 D288v / 3-SIZE
Image title: 
Armes Offensives.
Creator 1: 
Jean Baptiste Debret
Creator 1 dates: 
1768-1848
Creator 1 role: 
del.
Creator 2: 
Ch. Motte
Creator 2 role: 
lith. de
Place image published: 
[Paris]
Image publisher: 
[Firmin Didot Frères]
Image date: 
[1834]
Image function: 
plate 36; vol. 1, following p. 56
Technique: 
lithograph
Image dimension height: 
21.8 cm.
Image dimension width: 
33.6 cm.
Page dimension height: 
53.6 cm.
Page dimension width: 
34 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Description: 
Native American bow and ball, various kinds of arrows, and spears. Items are numbered for identification in text.
Source creator: 
Debret, Jean Baptiste, 1768-1848
Source Title: 
Voyage pittoresque et historique au Brésil ... Tome premier
Source place of publication: 
Paris
Source publisher: 
Firmin Didot Frères, imprimeurs de l'Institut de France, libraires, rue Jacob, no. 24.
Source date: 
M DCCC XXXIV [1834]
notes: 
Text explains that the bow is designed to launch balls. Debret names and explains the use of each kind of arrow and spear, also stating which native American group uses it.The lithographs in this book were made from drawings made by Debret during his fifteen-year residence (1816-1831) in Brazil.Lithographer is probably Charles Etienne Pierre Motte (French printmaker and draftsman, 1785-1836).Image placed horizontally on page.
Time Period: 
1801-1850
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired before 1874.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area: 
Brazil
Subject Area: 
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area: 
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings: 
Indian weapons--Brazil