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Image number: RS.10917
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Portrait of Yepádia
Date
21 August 1852-28 June 1853
Creator
Richard Spruce (1817 - 1893, British) , Explorer
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Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 221mm
width (drawing): 134mm
width (drawing): 134mm
Subject
Description
Portrait of the left profile of the head and shoulders of a woman wearing a necklace annotated by Spruce as 'No. 9. Yepádia. Tucana [Tucano] Ind. 20 years. Daughter-in-law of Wiáca, wife of Cáali (Iauaraté-cachoeira, Rio Uaupés)'.
Reproduced as Figure 28 in Notes of a botanist on the Amazon & Andes: being records of travel on the Amazon and its tributaries, the Trombetas, Rio Negro, Uaupés, Casiquiari, Pacimoni, Huallaga, and Pastasa; as also to the cataracts of the Orinoco, along the eastern side of the Andes of Peru and Ecuador, and the shores of the Pacific, during the years 1849-1864 edited by Alfred Russel Wallace (volume I, London, 1908).
Richard Spruce (1817-1893) British botanist was not a Fellow of the Royal Society. He spent fifteen years collecting in the Amazon of Brazil and the Andes of Peru and Ecuador between 1849-1864, and observing the indigenous people and their cultures, learning 21 different languages while away.
Spruce was already in South America when he was employed by a Kew Gardens-India Office project to secure seeds of the cinchona tree, whose bark yielded the antimalarial drug quinine. In 1860 he shipped around 100,000 dried seeds and over 600 young plants out of Ecuador. A year later, Ecuador adopted laws to protect its cinchona trees from mass exportation.
The Tukano, or Tucano, people live on the banks of the Uaupés River and its tributaries - the Tiquié, Papuri, Querari and other minor rivers.
Reproduced as Figure 28 in Notes of a botanist on the Amazon & Andes: being records of travel on the Amazon and its tributaries, the Trombetas, Rio Negro, Uaupés, Casiquiari, Pacimoni, Huallaga, and Pastasa; as also to the cataracts of the Orinoco, along the eastern side of the Andes of Peru and Ecuador, and the shores of the Pacific, during the years 1849-1864 edited by Alfred Russel Wallace (volume I, London, 1908).
Richard Spruce (1817-1893) British botanist was not a Fellow of the Royal Society. He spent fifteen years collecting in the Amazon of Brazil and the Andes of Peru and Ecuador between 1849-1864, and observing the indigenous people and their cultures, learning 21 different languages while away.
Spruce was already in South America when he was employed by a Kew Gardens-India Office project to secure seeds of the cinchona tree, whose bark yielded the antimalarial drug quinine. In 1860 he shipped around 100,000 dried seeds and over 600 young plants out of Ecuador. A year later, Ecuador adopted laws to protect its cinchona trees from mass exportation.
The Tukano, or Tucano, people live on the banks of the Uaupés River and its tributaries - the Tiquié, Papuri, Querari and other minor rivers.
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