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Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(32)
Title:: Amaúas. Indiens antropophages, position pour frapper avec la Guiarú (massue). Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Portrait of an Amauas Indian man (the same figure seen in several of the preceding prints), posed with a club held in striking position across his shoulder, montaged against a backdrop of partly cleared forest.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(33)
Title:: Forêt vierge sur l'Amazonas avec un Sumaúma (Eriodendron Sumauma Mart.) de 220 pieds de haut et 8 à 12 pieds de diamètre, produisant une capsule de la grandeur d'un petit melon, remplie de grains entourés d'un coton soyeux magnifique. Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography Study of a tall kapok or silk cotton tree in the forest.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(34)
Title:: Seringueira. Arbre à caoutchouc ou gomme élastique (Siphonia elastica Pers.) 100 pieds de haut. Les Indiens Cambebas furent les premiers qui préparèrent cette résine. Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography Study of a tall rubber tree in the forest. The photographer's portable dark tent can be seen at the left at the foot of the tree.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(35)
Title:: Castanheiro (Chataignes du Pará). (Bertholletia excelsa H. et B.) Arbre de 180 pieds de haut, excellent bois de constructions navales; ses fibres sont la meilleure étoupe pour calfat, et les noix contenues dans des capsules, sont très appréciées en Europe. Il y en a des forêts entières. Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography Study of a tall Brazil nut tree, standing with a few other trees in recently cleared forest.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(36)
Title:: Tinambucca (inconnu de nous botaniquement) sur l'Amazonas, 170 pieds de haut, arbre dont les Indiens contruisent les pirogues de grande dimension. Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography Study of a tall, unnamed tree, standing in recently cleared forest.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(37)
Title:: Miranhas (rive droite). Indiens demi civilisés près du lac Arini (père et mère), dont la femme porte un régime de bananes indigènes, appelées da Terra. Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Portrait of a Miranhas Indian man and woman, montaged against a backdrop of the aerial roots of a (mangrove?) tree. The man is seated on the roots; the woman, standing in profile, carries a large stem of local bananas on her back.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(38)
Title:: Miranhas (rive droite). Indiens demi civilisés près du lac Arini (frère et sœur), dont la femme porte un régime de bananes indigènes, appelées da Terra. Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography A similarly posed portrait to the preceding print, montaged against the same backdrop of roots, but showing a youth and a young woman.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(39)
Title:: Fabrication de caoutchouc operée principalement par la fumée de la semence des palmiers Urucuri e[t] Najá que l'on met dans le feu. Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Showing an Indian man seated beside a pot in a forest, engaged in the production of rubber. The rubber is coated on the wooden paddle, which the man holds over an earthenware jar from which the base has been removed in order to form a chimney for the smoke from...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(40)
Title:: Famille (rive gauche) de Cacique Caracrái, les derniers de la tribu Paçé, venue de Rio Iça. 1 Indienne de pur sang de la tribu Maraúa, 1 Indienne pur sang de la tribu Cataúxi, avec deux mamelucas. Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Montage of five oval portraits of Indians. In the centre a family group from the Rio Iça area, with four head-and-shoulders portraits of women at the corners.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(41)
Title:: Manáus. Une fileuse. Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length portrait of a young woman with a wooden spinning wheel, photographed in front of a house in Manaus. The same location (and the spinning wheel) can also be seen in print 10.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

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