Fishing Canoe, Brazil, 1816
Canoes are long and of just width sufficient to allow of two men sitting abreast. I have seen in one of them as many as sixteen men in two rows . . . these fellows are mostly dark-colored mulattoes and blacks (Koster, p. 175).
Image Title
Fishing Canoe, Brazil, 1816
RegID
SI-OB-1156
Date
1816
Title
Fishing Canoe, Brazil, 1816
Source
Henry Koster, Travels in Brazil (London, 1816), facing p. 175. (In the 2nd ed. [London, 1817], all images are in b/w). (Copy in the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University; also Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-97214)
Language
English
Item sets
Miscellaneous Occupations & Economic Activities
Reproduced In
Henry Koster, Travels in Brazil (London, 1816), facing p. 175. (In the 2nd ed. [London, 1817], all images are in b/w).
Researchers
Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy; Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Identifier
KOSTER3