Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Native Americans in Argentina]

Accession number: 
05917
Record number: 
05917-4
JCB call number: 
D830 T284t
Image title: 
[Native Americans in Argentina]
Place image published: 
[London]
Image publisher: 
[Colburn & Bentley]
Image date: 
1829
Image function: 
illustration; vol. 1, p. 79
Technique: 
woodcut
Image dimension height: 
8.9 cm.
Image dimension width: 
7.3 cm.
Page dimension height: 
21 cm.
Page dimension width: 
13 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Description: 
Two native Americans, one of whom is smoking, stand at the doorway of a building. Near them are a bunch of feathers, a rope or leather thong, and a jaguar skin.
Source creator: 
Temple, Edmond
Source Title: 
Travel in various parts of Peru, including a year's residence in Potosi, ... Vol I.
Source place of publication: 
London
Source publisher: 
Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street
Source date: 
1830
notes: 
Text notes that the natives of the Pampas barter their goods for other items they need.Temple made his trip as secretary of the Potosi Mining Association and left London in 1825. He sailed to Buenos Aires, Argentina, and then made his way to Potosí by land.
Time Period: 
1801-1850
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired before 1874.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area: 
Spanish America
Subject Area: 
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings: 
Barter
Subject headings: 
Indians of South America--Argentina