Colloqvivm Benzonis cvm Cacico quodam in Nicaragua, de Christianorum moribus. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Colloqvivm Benzonis cvm Cacico quodam in Nicaragua, de Christianorum moribus.
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Nicaragua; Spaniards; Colonists; Hammocks; Dwellings; Indigenous peoples – South America – Social life and customs; Indigenous peoples – Food – North America; Fires
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Nicaragua; South America; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire
Description: A Spanish man (Girolamo Benzoni) lounges in a hammock inside an Indigenous structure, in conversation with a Nicaraguan Indigenous leader (a Cacique). In the foreground an Indigenous woman sweeps the floor while a child frolics around her. Beside Benzoni’s hammock, a group of Indigenous men and women tend a fire and prepare food. The Cacique sits on a block close to the fire and holds onto the leg of a child while he converses with Benzoni. In the background, two women enter the room with a platter of food. This image is identical to one found on page 157 of Frankfurt, 1595, but colored.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver);Theodor de Bry (Printer); Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Theodor de Bry (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23790
Language: lat
Source Name: Americæ pars Qvinta Nobilis & admiratione plena Hieronymi Bezoni Mediolanensis secundæ sectionis Hispanorum, tum in Nigrittas seruos suos, tum in Indos crudelitatem, Gallorumq[ue] pirataru[m] de Hispanis toties reportata spolia, Aduentu[m] item Hispanoru[m] in Nouam Indiæ continentis Hispaniam, eorumq[ue], contra incolas eius regionis sæuitiam explicans.
Parent Collection: 1595 Bry; 1595 Bry
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Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Nicaragua; Spaniards; Colonists; Hammocks; Dwellings; Indigenous peoples – South America – Social life and customs; Indigenous peoples – Food – North America; Fires

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