Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10923
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Portrait of Kudé-Kubúi
Date
December 1853
Creator
Richard Spruce (1817 - 1893, British) , Explorer
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 185mm
width (drawing): 122mm
width (drawing): 122mm
Subject
Description
Portrait of the left profile of the head and shoulders of a man, annotated by Spruce as ‘No. 15. Guharibo Indian. Kudé-Kubúi. (Baptized José Miguel). 50 years old. Dec 1853. (Seen in the Pueblo de Monagas, on the Casiquiari). The Guharibo inhabit the sources of the Orinoco. R.S.’.
Reproduced as Figure 35 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 Guahibo, or Guajibo, people are an indigenous people native to Los Llanos, or savannah plains in eastern Colombia and southern Venezuela.
Reproduced as Figure 35 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 Guahibo, or Guajibo, people are an indigenous people native to Los Llanos, or savannah plains in eastern Colombia and southern Venezuela.
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