Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Accession number:
08984
Record number:
08984-23
JCB call number:
F706 A111n
Image title:
[Europeans punish native Americans]
Place image published:
[Leiden]
Image publisher:
[Pieter van der Aa]
Image date:
[1707]
Image function:
fold-out plate; vol. 3, [part 2], following p. 32
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
13 cm.
Image dimension width:
17.8 cm.
Page dimension height:
17.3 cm.
Page dimension width:
20.9 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Europeans punish native Americans. Includes the use of a whip and a brand. In the background men dig graves. Also includes dwellings, swords, and guns or muskets.
Source Title:
Naaukeurige versameling der gedenk-waardigste zee en land-reysen na Oost en West-Indiën ... zedert het jaar 1492 tot 1499
Source place of publication:
In het ligt gegeven te Leyden [Leiden]
Source publisher:
Door Pieter Vander Aa, boekverkoper in de St. Pieters Koor-steeg, in Plato.
Source date:
1707
notes:
Text describes the treatment of the native Americans in Hispaniola. This image follows the special title page for Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Vyf verscheide voyagien der Kastiliaanen en Portugezen ter ontdekking gedaan naar de West-Indien, in de jaren 1500 en 1505, Leiden, 1706. This collection of voyages consists of 127 parts, each having a special title page, separate pagination, and register. The voyages covering the period from 1246 to 1696 are arranged chronologically.
Time Period:
1701-1750
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities; Indigenous peoples
geographic area:
Caribbean Islands
Subject headings:
Indians, Treatment of; Indians of the West Indies--First contact with Europeans
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1849.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912

[Europeans punish native Americans]