Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Accession number:
08086
Record number:
08086-22
JCB call number:
E703 L184n1
Image title:
[Explication des Hiéroglyphes ici dépeints vis-à-vis des Lettre A B C D E F G H I K ...]
Place image published:
[The Hague]
Image publisher:
[Frères l'Honoré]
Image date:
[1703]
Image function:
fold-out plate; vol. 2, following p. 190
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
18.9 cm.
Image dimension width:
8.3cm.
Page dimension height:
20.3 cm.
Page dimension width:
8.9 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
French
Description:
Symbols or hieroglyphics of a native American language.
Source creator:
Lahontan, Louis Armand de Lom d'Arce, baron de, 1666-1715?
Source Title:
Nouveaux voyages de mr le baron de Lahontan, dans l'Amerique septentrionale ... Tome second
Source place of publication:
A La Haye [The Hague]
Source publisher:
Chez les Fréres [sic] l'Honoré, Marchands Libraires
Source date:
M. DCCIII. [1703]
notes:
Lahontan traveled throughout Canada in service for the military in New France. His account of his travels was enormously popular and was partly factual, partly fictional. Image title taken from chapter title.
Time Period:
1701-1750
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities; Indigenous peoples
geographic area:
North America
Subject headings:
Indians of North America--Languages-- Writing
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1870.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912

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