Original Zaparo Tribe Illustrations: Amazon Exploration, 1854

Name: Original Zaparo Tribe Illustrations: Amazon Exploration, 1854
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13806-88, BG-13806-87
Price: 145 USD
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Date: 1854
Kind: Native Peoples
Size: 22.5 × 15 cm (8.9 × 5.9 in)
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Peru
Reference: BG-13806-88, BG-13806-87

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About this piece

Two Zaparo men, a pair of original lithographs from Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon, published by the U.S. Navy Department in 1854. The plates are lettered "Zaparo", drawn by "Pr. Vernaui del." and lithographed by Wagner & McGuigan of Philadelphia, and one carries the number "Pl. 16".

In the first plate a man stands among the trees of a forest, wearing a tall feather headdress and a white loincloth, with a long spear in one hand and a small bird perched on the other. A pouch hangs at his waist, and a broken tree trunk and thick undergrowth fill the background. In the second plate a man stands on a sandy shore wearing a fringed skirt, holding a large fish by the tail, with a still lake, a canoe at the right edge and a range of mountains behind. Both are printed in black and gray in soft tones on a tinted ground.

The book recorded a U.S. Navy expedition down the Amazon and its tributaries, and its plates were among the early American illustrations of the peoples of the region.

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