Mulierum extinctos maritos lugentium ceremoniae. XIX. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Mulierum extinctos maritos lugentium ceremoniae. XIX.
Subject: Florida-History-Huguenot colony, 1562-1565; Indigenous women; Indigenous peoples – North America – Rites and ceremonies; Indigenous peoples – Florida; Timucua
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: North America; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire; Florida; United States of America
Description: Several Indigenous women are shown scattering a substance, possibly leaves or a grass, onto the ground. The women are mostly nude, although some wear a light skirt of grass tied around their waist or draped from their shoulder to their waist.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (Artist); Johann Wechel (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate Engraving
Identifier: mta:20349
Language: lat
Source Name: Brevis narratio eorum quae in Florida Americae provicia gallis acciderunt, secunda in illam navigatione, duce Renato de Laudoniere classis praefecto. Anno M D LXIIII. Quae est secunda pars Americae. Additae figurae & incolarum eicones ibidem ad vivu expressae, brevis item Declaratio Religionis, rituum, vivendique ratione ipsorum
Parent Collection: 1591 Latin
Image: mta_20349_OBJ.png