COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Accession number:
35552
Record number:
35552-3
JCB call number:
E720 B519r (copy 2)
Image title:
Raquetes.
Place image published:
[Amsterdam]
Image publisher:
[Jean Frederic Bernard]
Image date:
[1720]
Image function:
plate; first count, following p. 38
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
11.3 cm.
Image dimension width:
6.3 cm.
Page dimension height:
16.5 cm.
Page dimension width:
9 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
[top] Two snowshoes. [bottom] Nude native American wearing snowshoes carries a bow and arrow.
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 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. Cf. a later use of this image in Chatelain, Atlas historique ... Amsterdam, 1732. Image placed horizontally on page.
Time Period:
1701-1750
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1870.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
North America
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Indians of North America
Subject headings:
Snowshoes and snowshoeing--North America
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