Amazon Collection (#4)

Wild Southern Bolivian Indians Date: circa 1908

Amazons
Amazones, female warriors wearing armour. Coloured woodcut. Date: 1493

Brazil - Import and Export Business
Moyses Ezagui & Irmao - Import and Export Business - Itaoatiara, Brazil (in Amazon). Date: circa 1910s

A beached Amazon River Dolphin
A beached Amazon river dolphin, a freshwater river dolphin endemic to the Orinoco, Amazon and Araguaia/Tocantins River systems of Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela

Peru-Columbia War
Columbian troops advancing across an arid terrain during the Peru-Columbia War, which was sparked off in 1932 after Peruvians seized the Amazon border town of Leticia. Date: May 1933

Francisco De Orellana
FRANCISCO DE ORELLANA Took part in the Spanish conquest of Peru with Francisco Pizarro. Managed to sail the length of the Amazon River in 1542

Cody / Penny Dreadful / 1910
Colonel WILLIAM FREDERICK CODY alias Buffalo Bill Confrontation with Wapahoka the White Queen and her Amazon followers - " could he bring himself to shoot these girls?"

History of Fashion 1865
1882 depiction of clothing from about 1865. Pale grey dress with amazon body, broad cord trim at the hem & one shoulder in a military style & a broad belt with a buckle

Brazil I-Garape Muri
The town of Santa Ana do Igarape-Miri, on the Amazon

Brazil Tabatinga
A village on the banks of the Amazon

Brazil Amazon
Dragging a boat round the Teotonio Falls

Peru Iquitos
A village on the banks of the Amazon, villagers and their boats

Peru Omaguas
A village on the banks of the Amazon

Peru Cuntamana
The sierra and peak of Cuntamana, seen from the Amazon

Peru Pucallpa
A village on the banks of the Amazon

Dress with Buttons 1846
Dress with a plain skirt that buttons up the centre, jacket / caraco corsage buttoned high to the neck, tight sleeves, frill at neck & cuffs, green parasol

Brazil / Amazon Lilies
Victoria Regia water lilies on the Amazon

Amazon Warriors
Two Amazon warriors : the lower one wears a protective tunic

Amazon Rain Forest
The Amazon rain-forest as it was found by the conquista- -dors. A missionary is informing a native that all this is the Christian Gods handiwork

Brazil / Amazon C1890
Tropical forest lines the banks of the lower Amazon, Brazil

The Amazon Sculpture
The Amazon A sculpture by Kiss, Berlin of an Amazon woman spearing a lion which is attacking her horse

Mico Monkey (Bewick)
Latin name unknown to Bewick who thinks this Amazon resid- ent the most beautiful of all monkeys - face and ears of so lively a vermilion colour as to appear the effect of art

Red-Tailed Monkey Bewick
Simia oedipus (!) A lively, beautiful little animal who lives on the banks of the Amazon and is notable for its long silvery hair and its soft whistling voice

ASPASIA Greek adventuress and consort of Pericles Date: 470 - 410 BC

Women / War / Amazon
An Amazon on horseback

On the Amazon River c. 1825
Passage on the River Amazon - journeying by boat between Lima and Paraguay

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