Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Accession number:
07598
Record number:
07598-3
JCB call number:
E575 T418c / 2-SIZE
Image title:
[Ruse de guerre des Canadeens]
Place image published:
[Paris]
Image publisher:
[Pierre L'Huillier]
Image date:
[1575]
Image function:
illustration; leaf 1012
Technique:
woodcut
Image dimension height:
9.3 cm.
Image dimension width:
12.7 cm.
Page dimension height:
36.5 cm.
Page dimension width:
23.1 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
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
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1875.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
Commentary:

[Ruse de guerre des Canadeens]

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