Isle de la Trinité. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Isle de la Trinité.
Subject: Indigenous peoples – West Indies; Indigenous peoples – Wars – West Indies; Bow and arrow; Dugout canoes; Islands; Fishing; Village communities
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Trinidad and Tobago; Antilles, Lesser; West Indies; North America; Paris; France
Description: An aerial view of an island is shown, identified as Ile de la Trinité by the author (today known as the island Trinidad, of Trinidad and Tobago). Near the ‘bottom’ of the island there are two groups of Indigenous people engaged in conflict. One group stands on land defending themselves with spears, bows and arrows and shields, while the other group attacks from a rowboat or canoe on the water, also with bows and arrows and spears. Two pairs of people fish from canoes in the bottom and top right corners. Across the island, another pair of individuals fish on the left side, two others spar together on the right, and others cook around a large pot in the middle. There are several structures scattered over the island. This image is identical to one found on page 961 verso of Paris, 1575 (l’Huillier).
Image Creator: Unknown (Woodcutter);Guillaume Chaudière (Printer); Unknown (Woodcutter); Guillaume Chaudière (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:23561
Language: fre
Source Name: La Cosmographie Vniverselle d’André Thevet Cosmographe du Roy
Parent Collection: 1575 Paris; 1575 Paris
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Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Indigenous peoples – West Indies; Indigenous peoples – Wars – West Indies; Bow and arrow; Dugout canoes; Islands; Fishing; Village communities

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