Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: 1. Moxe du Pérou. 3. Vigogne. 2. Paysanne de Quito.

Accession number: 
85-123
Record number: 
85-123-4
JCB call number: 
F808 C697a
Image title: 
1. Moxe du Pérou. 3. Vigogne. 2. Paysanne de Quito.
Place image published: 
[Paris]
Image publisher: 
[F. Dufart, père]
Image date: 
1808
Image function: 
plate; vol. 2, following p. 152
Technique: 
stipple engraving
Image dimension height: 
8.2 cm.
Image dimension width: 
13.3 cm.
Page dimension height: 
19.5 cm.
Page dimension width: 
11.5 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Description: 
A native American man, woman, and child from Peru or Bolivia stand next to a vicuña or vicugna. The Moxo man wears a feathered cape and feathered headdress. The woman holds a basket of flowers or fruit and carries her child on her back. Items are numbered for identification in key below the image.
Source Title: 
Collection abrégée des voyages anciens et modernes autour du monde; avec des extraits des autres voyageurs les plus célèbres et les plus récents ... Tome second
Source place of publication: 
Paris
Source publisher: 
De l'imprimerie de F. Dufart, père
Source date: 
1808
notes: 
This image illustrates the voyage of Sir Francis Drake.A fierce tribe of indigenous people who live in present-day Bolivia, the Mojos [Moxos] resisted Christianity until the late seventeenth century.Compiled by François Bancarel, this is a collection of voyages, notably of the Pacific. Image placed horizontally on page.
Time Period: 
1801-1850
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired in 1985.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area: 
Spanish America
Subject Area: 
Flora and fauna
Subject Area: 
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings: 
Clothing and dress--Bolivia
Subject headings: 
Clothing and dress--Peru
Subject headings: 
Indians of South America--Clothing
Subject headings: 
Vicuña
Subject headings: 
Mojo Indians