Peru - Indiens Yurucares (Plate 11) (Yurucare Indigenous People Living in the Amazon Basin, Bolivia)

Engraver	Augustin Francois Lemaitre (1797-1870)
Date	1843
Technique	Copper Engraving
Category	Uncategorized
Source	Mexique et Guatemala par M.De Larenaudiere, Peru par M.Lacroixd, Paris, Firmin Didot Freres, Editeurs, Imprimeurs Libraires de L'Institut de France

Description

This engraving depicts the Yurucaré people within a dense tropical landscape, emphasizing their communal structure, attire, and environment. Such images formed part of 19th-century ethnographic documentation, often shaped by European observational and colonial perspectives.

Indigenous peoples, South America, Yurucare, ethnography, colonial travel, 19th century