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- Creator:
- Cook, Henry R., printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Novr. 20 1812.
- Call Number:
- 812.11.20.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- The plate on the right shows, a young Arawak woman, shown full-length and wearing a beaded apron and standing with her right foot posed on a small rock. She holds a parrot held high in her right hand and a bow and arrow in her left; in the distance another Arawak is shown ready to shoot his arrow and The plate on the left shows, a Arawak native slitting the throat of a large Aboma snake that is hanging from a branch of a tree, suspended by a rope around its neck. Two other Arawak natives pull at the rope to hoist the snake higher. A man in Western dress, his back to the viewer, directs the work of the natives from the ground (left foreground), his rifle resting against the trunk of the tree. On the right in the distance, a man sits in a boat on the river
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., The engravings are believed to have based on drawings by the author J.G. Stedman, two of the early plates acknowledging the attribution. Stedman was a friend of William Blake who may have assisted Stedman, an amateur artist., "Indian female of the Arrowauka Nation" first engraved by Benedetti and published "Decr. 1st, 1792, by J. Johnson"., and Copies of plates origingally printed for: Stedman, J. G. Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America. London : J. Johnson & T. Payne, 1806-1813.
- Publisher:
- Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, Paternoster Row
- Subject (Geographic):
- Suriname. and Guiana.
- Subject (Topic):
- Slavery, Indians of South America, Arrows, Bows (Weapons), Hunting, Parrots, and Snakes
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The skinning of the Aboma snake Indian female of the Arrowauka Nation / [graphic]