Father Andrew White baptizing King "Chilomacon" [Chitomachen, Kitamaquund, Kittamaquindi, etc.] in the town of Kittamaquindi, ca 1639-1642 in what is now Maryland
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content: OPPS NEG.2860 UU
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content: Black and white copy negative
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content: Heinsch, G. G.
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content: Conoy
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content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
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content: Heinsch, G. G.
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content: Piscataway (Conoy)
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content: Conoy Indians
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Heinsch, G. G.
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content: Tribal attribution, "Chilomacon's" alternate names, and the dates of Father White's mission in Kittamaquindi supplied from Bureau of American Ethnology-Bulletin 30, "Kittamaquindi," part 1, page 708.

Engraving shown on this negative gives source as "Tanner, Societas Jesu, 1694." The fuller citation given is from the British Museum catalogue.

"I telephoned Mr Walker of the NCFA and he read me a lengthy discussion of the artist. He was listed in the reference as Johann Georg Heintsch (with a variety of spellings, including Heinsch), an artist who was born in Silesia in 1647 and who died in Prague in 1713....

"From an encylopedia of engravers in our local library I learned that there was a family of engravers named Kilian who lived in Augsburg...It would appear that the engraver of the baptismal sketch was Bartholomaus [Kilian, 1630-1696]." --excerpt from letter of E. R. Denny, 12/12/70, in National Anthopological Archives correspondence files..
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content: Letter to Mrs Emily Roe Denny: The identification of the engraving of the baptism of King "Chilomachon" on our negative Number 2860 UU is incomplete because our negative was made many years ago from an unidentified published source. From the reference appearing under the picture in our negative we have identified the original source as a book by Matthias Tanner entitled Societas Jesu Apostolorum Imitatrix..., apparently printed at the press of the University of Charles Ferdinand in Prague, 1694 (Typis Universitatis Carolo-Ferdinandeae: Prague, 1694). In our copy, the name of the artist, which is shown at the lower left, appears to be G. G. Heinsch (followed by "del.," an abbreviation for the Latin, delineavit) and the engraver's name appears to be I. or J. Killian (followed by "Sc.," sculpsit). We have no information about Heinsch, but if you wish to try to find information about him you might telephone Mr William Walker, Librarian, National Collection of Fine Arts (381-5118) or Dr Elizabeth Harris in the Smithsonian's Division of Graphic Arts (381-5235). In any case, it is quite certain that the drawing was not made from life; the palm trees and the feather capes and collars worn by the Indians suggest that it may have been adapted from a representation of Central or South American Indians. I assume that the Latin caption shown was taken from Tanner's book. I cannot give a literal translation, but it refers to Father Andrew White, who established a mission in Maryland in 1639. It also states that Father White died in England in 1655 near the age of 80. I enclose a copy of the brief article, "Kittamiquindi," from the "Handbook of American Indians" (B.A.E. Bulletin 30, part 1, 1907, page 708., referring to Father White. I regret that we do not have access to Tanner's original work.

Our library informs us that there is no copy of Tanner's work in the Washington area and that the nearest library that has one is that of the Hispanic Society of America, 613 W. 155th Street, New York, N. Y. 10032. Other copies are in the John Carter Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island and the Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois. If you are successful in locatind additional information about ths picture, I would be pleased to learn more about it. Sincerely yours, (Mrs) Margaret C. Blaker Archivist