Pictura vel delineatio hominum nuper ex Anglia AD vectorum una cum corum armis tentoriis, & naviculis
Drawing is a modern copy of the frontispiece to Frobisher's Historia Navigationis, an account of his travels to the Davis Straits area of Greenland the 1570s, showing an Inuit hunting birds from a kayak while another man holds his kayak on the shore. An Inuit woman carries her infant on her bac...
Format: | Still Image |
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Language: | English |
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1850
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Online Access: | http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.22925 |
Summary: | Drawing is a modern copy of the frontispiece to Frobisher's Historia Navigationis, an account of his travels to the Davis Straits area of Greenland the 1570s, showing an Inuit hunting birds from a kayak while another man holds his kayak on the shore. An Inuit woman carries her infant on her back. To the left is a village scene with tents, Inuit families, and a dog harnassed to a kayak, pulling it along. Inscribed below image: Frontispiece to Martin Frobisher's Voyages, in Latin, Noribergae CIC IC XXC. |
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