AMERICAN CONTACT
Creators: Juan Bautista de Viseo
Date of Creation: 1600
Place of origin: Tlatelolco, Mexico
Materials: Vellum covers, rag paper, string, recycled materials.
Process by which it was made: Printed by Melchor Ocharte.
Current location: Special Collections, Mary Couts Burnett Library, Texas Christian University.
Information contributed by Alex Hidalgo.
Creators: Unknown, likely French.
Date of Creation: ca. 1650s
Place of origin: Likely France
Physical measurements: Unknown.
Materials: Brass
Process by which it was made: Casting
Current location: N/A
Further Reading
Brooks, Lisa. Our Beloved Kin: Remapping a New History of King Philip’s War. 2018. New Haven, CT:Yale University Press.
Cipolla, Craig, editor. 2017. Foreign Objects: Rethinking Indigenous Consumption in American
Archaeology, Tuscon, AZ, University of Arizona Press.
Clark, Michael P., editor. 2003. The Eliot Tracts. Westport, CT: Praeger.
Greer, Allan, editor. 2019. The Jesuit Relations: Natives and Missionaries in Seventeenth
Century North America, Second Edition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s.
Information contributed by Marie B. Taylor.
Creators: Joseph Chiwatenhwa [Wendat]; Barthélemy Vimont; Paul Le Jeune; Jérôme Lalemant
Date of Creation: Printed 1642
Place of origin: Paris
Materials: Paper
Process by which it was made: Letter-press printing
Current location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania; Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Information contributed by John Pollack.