Een wilde Sychnecta genaamt, van de Mohawk uyt Noord-America, te zien geweest in Blaauw Jan 1764 / P. Barbiers adv. delin.; A. Smit fecit.

[S.l. : s.n.], 1764.

1 print : etching, b & w ; 28.5 x 20.5 cm.

Title from caption.

Purchased from William Reese Company on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 2001.

Dutch etching of a Mohawk chief named Sychnecta who visited Blaauw[?] shortly after the French and Indian War. The chief is depicted full length, wearing a headpiece with feathers, a shirt with full sleeves, a skirt gathered in front, with a bow and arrow in his left hand, a pipe-tomahawk held to his mouth with his right hand. A pair of snowshoes are at his right.

Dutch

June 01, 2002

A. Smit, Een Wilde Sychnecta Genaamt, van de Mohawk uyt Noord-America. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

A. Smit, Een Wilde Sychnecta Genaamt, van de Mohawk uyt Noord-America. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Etchings.