Modo che tengono í medici nel medicare gl’infermi. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Modo che tengono í medici nel medicare gl’infermi.
Subject: Indigenous peoples – West Indies; Indigenous peoples – Hispaniola; Care of the sick; Tobacco pipes; Indigenous peoples – Tobacco use – North America; Hammocks
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Hispaniola; Haiti; Dominican Republic; Antilles, Greater; West Indies; North America; Venice; Republic of Venice; Italy
Description: An Indigenous man seated on a three-legged stool smokes a pipe, while a second man lays on his back on the ground nearby with a pipe on the ground near his arm. In the background, a man tends to another person lying on a hammock under a shelter with a roof and one wall. This image is identical to one found on page 55 (unnumbered) of Venice, 1565.
Image Creator: Unknown (Woodcutter); Heirs of Giovanni Maria Bonelli (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:23683
Language: ita
Source Name: La Historia del Mondo Nuovo
Parent Collection: 1572 Benzoni
Image: mta_23683_OBJ.png