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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
07593
Record number:
07593-3
JCB call number:
E619 C453v
Image title:
[Native American dance]
Place image published:
[Paris]
Image publisher:
[Claude Collet]
Image date:
[1619]
Image function:
plate; leaf 99 verso
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
14.6 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width:
8.9 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height:
17.3 cm.
Page dimension width:
10.8 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Eight native Americans, both male and female, dressed in aprons and beads dance between two groups of native Americans seated on mats. A female dancer holds a turtle shell that has been attached to a stick as if it were a rattle.
Source creator:
Champlain, Samuel de, 1567-1635
Source Title:
Voyages et descouuertures faites en la Nouuelle France ...
Source place of publication:
A Paris
Source publisher:
chez Claude Collet, au Palais, en la gallerie des Prisonniers
Source date:
M.D.C.XIX [1619]
notes:
Text explains that dances were often done to cure the sick. The body of the turtle was filled with stones and functioned as a rattle.
Time Period:
1601-1650
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1882.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
North America
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Rites and ceremonies
Subject headings:
Indians of North America--Canada
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