Modo di dormire nel Golfo di Paria, & altri molti luoghi. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Modo di dormire nel Golfo di Paria, & altri molti luoghi.
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Venezuela; Hammocks; Bonfires; Sleep
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Paria, Gulf of (Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago); Venezuela, Northeast; South America; Venice; Republic of Venice; Italy
Description: In the foreground, an Indigenous person lays on a hammock that has been strung up under a shelter. The shelter is simple, composed of four poles and a flat roof, with the hammock strung between two of the poles. In the background, two Indigenous people sit beside a fire. There is a second hammock, also strung between the two poles of a shelter, however this shelter is slanted, with on end resting on the ground and the other atop the poles. This image is identical to one found on page 8 of Venice, 1565.
Image Creator: Unknown (Woodcutter);Heirs of Giovanni Maria Bonelli (Printer); Unknown (Woodcutter); Heirs of Giovanni Maria Bonelli (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:23680
Language: ita
Source Name: La Historia del Mondo Nuovo
Parent Collection: 1572 Benzoni; 1572 Benzoni
Image: mta_23680_OBJ.png
Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Venezuela; Hammocks; Bonfires; Sleep