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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)
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
On View
Not on view
Collections
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.

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