Ad Præfectum Erreram feruntur munera ab vxore Reguli Prouinciæ Cumanæ. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Ad Præfectum Erreram feruntur munera ab vxore Reguli Prouinciæ Cumanæ.
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Cumaná; Province of Cumaná; New Andalusia Province; Venezuela; South America; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire
Description: Inside a structure, and Indigenous woman and a European man sit on a bench, while several other European men stand nearby in conversation. The woman is nude with long, unbound hair. She wears two hoop earrings in each ear and two smaller hoops in her nose. The European men are all finely dressed in doublets and hose, and several wear fine hats or helmets. The man on the bench is seated on a cushion and gestures towards the Indigenous women while conversing with the other men. He carries a thin sword, while one of the other men holds a musket. In the center of the group on the floor there is a large basket of fruit, a gift presented by the Indigenous woman. Another woman can be seen on the right, approaching the building with another large basket of fruit. This image is identical to one found on page 153 of Frankfurt, 1594.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver);Johann Feyerabend (Printer); Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Johann Feyerabend (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23712
Language: lat
Source Name: Americae pars quarta. Sive, Insignis & Admiranda Historia de reperta primùm Occidentali India à Christophoro Columbo Anno M. CCCCXCII
Parent Collection: 1594 Latin; 1594 Latin
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Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Venezuela; Indigenous women; Earrings; Nose rings; Colonists; Colonization; Spaniards – Latin America – History; Clothing and dress – Europe – History; Giftbaskets

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