Two groups of native Americans engage in warfare. One group is overcome by smoke from a fire.
Source creator:
Thevet, André, 1502-1590
Source Title:
La cosmographie vniuerselle ...
Source place of publication:
A Paris
Source publisher:
chez Pierre L'Huillier, rue Sainct Iaques, à l'Oliuier
Source date:
1575
notes:
Image title from marginal gloss. Text explains how one native American battle tactic was to create a fire of wood saturated with noxious materials the smoke from which would then poison and asphyxiate the enemy downwind of it.
Time Period:
1492-1600
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities; Indigenous peoples
geographic area:
North America
Subject headings:
Indians of North America--Warfare; Military Art and Science
