COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Accession number:
32735
Record number:
32735-2
JCB call number:
D796 M483v
Image title:
Callicum e Maquilla, Capi dell'Imboccatura del Nootka.
Place image published:
[Florence]
Image publisher:
[Giovacchino Pagani]
Image date:
1796
Image function:
plate; vol. 2, following p. 32
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
14.8 cm.
Image dimension width:
10.3 cm.
Page dimension height:
18 cm.
Page dimension width:
12.1 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Italian
Description:
Two native American (Eskimo) chiefs shake hands while standing on a shore. Includes ship, boats, cloth, fur or skin clothing,and bracelets.
Source creator:
Meares, John, 1756?-1809
Source Title:
[Voyages made in the years 1788 and 1789 from China to the northwest coast of America. Italian] Viaggi dalla China alla costa nord-ovest d'America fatti negli anni 1788 e 1789 / dal capitano G. Meares. Prima traduzione italiana ... tomo secondo
Source place of publication:
Firenze [Florence]
Source publisher:
A spese di Giovacchino Pagani
Source date:
1796
notes:
Maquilla or Muquinna was the name of a series of chiefs, but this one seems to have led his people from 1778 to 1795. He and his Nootka native Americans had their summer village at Yuquot, at the mouth of Nootka Sound. Meares claimed that Maquilla sold him land for a trading post.John Meares made two trips to northwestern North America, one in 1786-1787 and the other in 1788-1789, both with false papers in the hope of trading for furs on lands claimed by Spain. His activities nearly sparked a war with Spain. He was also accused by his more respectable fellow mariners of having aggrandized his accomplishments.Cf. 35386-1 Meares, Voyages made in the years 1788 and 1789, from China to the North West coast of America, London, 1790 for an earlier version.
Time Period:
1751-1800
References:
http://www.biograph… (Jan. 2009)
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
North America
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject Area:
Portraits
Subject headings:
Eskimos
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