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Costume of a female warrior of the River of the Amazons, South America. In helmet with plumes, animal-skin cloak revealing one breast, skirt and sandals, armed with spear, bow and quiver of arrows. Lived on Iacamabe mountain, near Guyana. Guerriere de la riviere de Amazones. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Laroque after a design by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur from his Encyclopedie des voyages, Encyclopedia of Voyages, Bordeaux, France, 1792.
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Costume of a female warrior of the River of the Amazons, South America. In helmet with plumes, animal-skin cloak revealing one breast, skirt and sandals, armed with spear, bow and quiver of arrows. Lived on Iacamabe mountain, near Guyana. Guerriere de la riviere de Amazones. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Laroque after a design by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur from his Encyclopedie des voyages, Encyclopedia of Voyages, Bordeaux, France, 1792.
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Album / Florilegius
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Image size:
4423 x 6814 px | 86.2 MB
Print size:
37.4 x 57.7 cm | 14.7 x 22.7 in (300 dpi)
Keywords:
1792 • AMAZONS • ANIMAL-SKIN CLOAK • ANTHROPOLOGY • AQUATINT • AQUATINT, ETCHING • ARROWS • BEAUTY • BORDEAUX • BOW • BREAST • BREASTS • CHEST • CLOTHING: SKIRT • COLONIALISM • COPPERPLATE ENGRAVING • COSTUME • CULT • DESIGN • DISGUISE • ENCYCLOPEDIA OF VOYAGES • ENCYCLOPEDIE DES VOYAGES • ENLIGHTENMENT • ETCHED ENGRAVING • ETCHING • ETHNOGRAPHY • EUROCENTRIC • FANTASY • FASHION • FEMALE WARRIOR • FRANCE • GUERRIERE DE LA RIVIERE DE AMAZONES • GUYANA • HANDCOLOURED • HARD HAT • HARD-HAT • HARDHAT • HELMET • HUMANS • IACAMABE MOUNTAIN • IMPERIALISM • J. LAROQUE • JACQUES GRASSET DE SAINT-SAUVEUR • LANCE • LANCES • MASQUERADE • MATRIARCHY • MODA • MYTH • MYTHOLOGY • NOBLE SAVAGE • PEOPLE • PLUMES • QUIVER • RACISM • RITE • RITUAL • RIVER AMAZON • SANDAL • SKIRT • SKIRT, CLOTHING • SOUTH AMERICA • SPEAR • SUDAMERICA • WATER
