Columbus and His First Voyage by James E. Wadsworth;

Author:James E. Wadsworth;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781474276849
Publisher: Bloomsbury UK

Figure 4.1 Taino Dwellings and Hammock.

Source: Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Historia generaly natural de las indias, vol. 1 (1851–1855), plate 1

Note: Figures 5 and 6 in the upper right-hand corner are drums. Figure 7 ­below them is a tube used to take snuff. The dwelling on the left, called a caney, was for everyday use, while the one on the right, called a bohío, was used by chiefs. At the bottom is a stone axe or celt hafted to a wooden handle.

Letter to the Sovereigns of 4 March 1493 Announcing the Discovery 12

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