Eines Königschen Ehegemal in der Prouintz Cumana bringet dem Landtvogt Ererra Schenke. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Eines Königschen Ehegemal in der Prouintz Cumana bringet dem Landtvogt Ererra Schenke.
Subject: Earrings; Nose rings; Colonists; Colonization; Spaniards – Latin America – History; Clothing and dress – Europe – History; Giftbaskets; Indigenous peoples – Venezuela; Indigenous women
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: New Andalusia Province; Venezuela; South America; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire; Cumaná; Province of Cumaná
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.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Johann Feyerabend (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23697
Language: ger
Source Name: Das vierdte Buch Von den neuwen Welt. oder Neuwe und gründtliche Historien, von dem Nidergängischen Indien, so von Christophoro Colombo im Jar 1492 erstlich erfunden
Parent Collection: 1594 Feyerabend
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