Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Sacrifice that the Floridians Make to the Sun of their First Born (top) and Offering of a Stag that the Floridians Make to the Sun (bottom) (from Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World, Volume VII, plate 54)

Artist Bernard Picart (French, 1673 - 1733)

After Johann Theodor de Bry

After Jacques Le Moyne (French, active after 1564, died 1588)

Date1722-1724

SubjectFlorida, United States, North and Central America

MediumEngraving

Dimensionssheet: 16 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. (41.9 x 26.7 cm)
Top image: 6 x 8 1/4 in. (15.2 x 21 cm)
Bottom image: 6 x 8 1/4 in. (15.2 x 21 cm)

ClassificationsPrints

Credit LineGift of Father Robert Baker

Object numberPR-81-2

Collections

PRINTS AND DRAWINGS BEFORE 1850

DescriptionTwo prints on one sheet; top: people dance in a wide circle around another dancing figure while a man crouches behind them and others sit and stand in the distance, palm trees in the background; bottom: men kneel with arms raised overhead, in a curved link, with one man standing at a tree/post at the end.