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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
07253
Record number:
07253-18
JCB call number:
E724 L164ml vol. 2 [R]
Image title:
[Planche XI. Voyage sur les neiges & campement d'hyver. Les Sauvages paroissent ici, les uns portant leur équipage sur des bretelles, & les autres le tirant après eux sur leurs traînes. ...]
Place image published:
[Paris]
Image publisher:
[Saugrain l'aîné ... Charles Estienne Hochereau]
Image date:
[1724]
Image function:
plate 10; following p. 218
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
19.1 cm.
Image dimension width:
14 cm.
Page dimension height:
25 cm.
Page dimension width:
19 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Native Americans travel and camp during the winter. Some pull supplies on toboggans, some carry supplies on their backs. Others pitch camp, chop wood, make fires, and set up shelter. Cultural artifacts include hatchets, fire drill, and snowshoe.
Source creator:
Lafitau, Joseph François, 1681-1746
Source Title:
Moeurs des sauvages ameriquains, comparées aux moeurs des premiers temps ... Tome second
Source place of publication:
Paris
Source publisher:
Chez Saugrain l'aîné, Quay des Augustins ... Charles Estienne Hochereau, à l'entrée du Quay des Augustins
Source date:
MDCCXXIV [1724]
notes:
Identification of activities and image title taken from "Explication des planches et figures," in preface. The author notes in the "Explication" that the engraver has not wrapped the Indians in their furs as the season demands. He also notes that the image of the snowshoe is very good.
Time Period:
1701-1750
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1870.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
Arctic
geographic area:
North America
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Indians of North America
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