COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Accession number:
35552
Record number:
35552-1
JCB call number:
E720 B519r (copy 2)
Image title:
[Hunting musk oxen]
Place image published:
[Amsterdam]
Image publisher:
[Jean Frederic Bernard]
Image date:
[1720]
Image function:
plate; first count, following p. 10
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
11.3 cm.
Image dimension width:
6.5 cm.
Page dimension height:
16.5 cm.
Page dimension width:
9.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
French
Description:
[top] Men (native Americans?) hunt musk oxen [or muskoxen] using spears. [bottom] Two men lasso a musk ox by its horns while another man prepares to spear it.
Source creator:
Bernard, Jean Frédéric, d. 1752
Source Title:
[Recueil de voyage au Nord. v. 6. Selections] Recueil d'arrests et autres pieces pour l'etablissement de la Compagnie d'Occident. Relation de la baie de Hudson. Les navigations de Frobisher, au détroit qui porte son nom.
Source place of publication:
A Amsterdam
Source publisher:
Chez Jean Frederic Bernard
Source date:
M. DCC. XX [1720]
notes:
The muskox, Ovibos moschatus, is native to the Arctic. Its numbers have been greatly reduced due perhaps to hunting and climate change. Text notes that there are not many of the animals already at the end of the seventeenth century. It was easy for the natives to hunt, because it has short legs and cannot move quickly in the snow. These animals were seen between the Riviere Danoise (now the Churchill River in Saskatchewan and Manitoba) and the Riviere du Loup-Marin. The first part, Relation du detroit et de la baie de Hudson, is a reprint from the sixth volume of Bernard's "Recueil de voyage au Nord", first printed Amsterdam, 1715. It appears to be written by Nicolas Jérémie (1669-1732), who was an important officer at Fort Bourbon (York Factory) under the French.
Time Period:
1701-1750
References:
http://www.fws.gov/… http://utpjournals.… (July 2008)
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1870.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Arctic
geographic area:
North America
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Indians of North America--Hunting
Subject headings:
Muskox