Il modo di pescare, & nauigare nel mare di Mezzo giorno. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Il modo di pescare, & nauigare nel mare di Mezzo giorno.
Subject: Indigenous peoples - South America; Indigenous peoples – Ecuador; Rafts; Indigenous peoples – Fishing – South America; Fishing nets
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Ecuador; South America; Venice; Republic of Venice; Italy
Description: Eight Indigenous people sail near the coast on a large wooden raft. The raft has a single small sail at the fore end and a raised platform in the middle. Around the edges, six of the passengers row with large oars (three on each side). At the rear, one person sits on a raised bench with a smaller oar, and another person throws something into the water. In the background two people sit in the water on long, narrow wooden rafts. They hold a net between them to catch fish. This image is identical to one found on page 159 verso of Venice, 1565.
Image Creator: Unknown (Woodcutter); Heirs of Giovanni Maria Bonelli (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:23691
Language: ita
Source Name: La Historia del Mondo Nuovo
Parent Collection: 1572 Benzoni
Image: mta_23691_OBJ.png