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: Hammocks; Bonfires; Sleep; Indigenous peoples – Venezuela
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Venezuela, Northeast; South America; Venice; Republic of Venice; Italy; Paria, Gulf of (Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago)
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.
Image Creator: Unknown (Woodcutter); Francesco Rampazetto (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:23662
Language: ita
Source Name: La Historia del Mondo Nuovo
Parent Collection: 1565 Rampazetto
Image: mta_23662_OBJ.png