Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Characteristick Chicasaw head
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Accession number:
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07520
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Record number:
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07520-1
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JCB call number:
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D776 R579c
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Image title:
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Characteristick Chicasaw head
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Place image published:
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[Philadelphia]
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Image publisher:
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[R. Aitken]
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Image date:
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[1776]
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Image function:
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plate; following p. 58
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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10.4 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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6 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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17.1 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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10 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink
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Materials support:
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paper
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Description:
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Head of a native American of the Chickasaw tribe. Includes feathered headdress, necklace, and tattoo or painted facial ornament.
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Source creator:
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Romans, Bernard, ca. 1720-ca. 1784
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Source Title:
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A concise natural history of East and West-Florida. Containing, an account of the natural produce of all the southern part of British America, in the three kingdoms of nature, particularly the animal and vegetable ...
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Source place of publication:
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[Philadelphia] New-York Printed
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Source publisher:
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Sold by R. Aitken, bookseller, opposite the London Coffee-House, Front-Street.
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Source date:
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M.DCC.LXXVI. [1776]
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notes:
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Romans notes that the Chickasaw were "accounted the mother nation on this part of the continent, and their language universally adopted by most, if not all, of the western nations." Romans was born in the Netherlands, emigrated to England, and then to North America during the Seven Years' War. From 1768 to 1772 he was in various capacities surveyor of much of southeastern North America. In 1773 he moved to the northern British colonies where he soon began to work for the American revolutionaries in the war of independence. Reissue in Philadelphia of the sheets of the first edition, published New York, 1775. The second volume was not published.
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Time Period:
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1751-1800
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired before 1870.
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Owner and copyright:
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©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
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North America
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Subject Area:
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Indigenous peoples
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Subject headings:
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Chickasaw Indians
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