Costumbres de los indigenas que habitan en el Valle del Amazonas en el departamento de Loreto
By: por Manuel Rodrigues Pinto Rubens
Series: Dumbarton Oaks Digitization Project
Published: 1873
Language: spa; fre; por
Number of pages: 39
Subjects: Costume; Clothing and dress; Indians of South America; Clothing; Rites and ceremonies; Social life and customs; Religious life and customs
Other titles: Amazonas costumbres de Loreto
Notes: "Loreto is one of the departments that constitute the modern Republic of Peru, it borders with Brazil and Ecuador, and is located in the Peruvian Amazonia region; it is the largest department of Peru and amongst the least populated to-date; by the time of the survey performed by Pinto Rubens, it was also one of the least explored and settled by Europeans, most of the missionary attempts of forming permanent populations failed. By the end of the 19th century (1879 - 1912), the Amazon rubber boom saw the region vastly explored and colonialized, and the enslavement of the native population as work-force for the extraction of rubber; this is thus one of the last visual records of what the region looked like before the entry of industry."--Librería de Antaño, Buenos Ayres, bookseller, datasheet.

Text signed, at end: Loreto Noviembre 4 de 1873, Manuel Rodrigues Pinto Rubens.

The 22 watercolors are signed, lower left of image: Rubens.

Manuscript.

Leaf numbers at top right of leaves; text pages have an alternate numbering scheme on versos.

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In Spanish; some illustration captions in Spanish and French; prefatory leaf in Portuguese.

Lib. copy pagination: 1, 2 , 4-34, 39, 35-38 leaves.

Lib. copy has 2 photographs laid in physical volume between inside front cover and front fly leaf with captions in ink script: (1) L'église et la place de St. Francisco a Quito au temps de l'élévation and, (2) Journaliers indiens de Lima [group portrait].

Lib. copy has on front pastedown, a note/letter on light-blue paper: "Le livre est écrit à Loreto, petit village et résidence du gouverneur de la province du bas Marañon, situé sur le Marañon, par M. Rodrigues Pinto Rubens, qui (je suppose) est le gouverneur même et a été donné à M. Fison, Capitaine de la marine du Pérou. Le gouvernement du Pérou s'est mis en possession de cette province qui de droit appartient à l'Equateur. Les pintures [sic] sont à regarder avec un peu de précaution. Mr Fison donne ce livre en cadeau au P[ère] Rev[érend] Provincial."

Lib. copy has inscription on front fly leaf recto: Al Senor / Don Ulpiano Benjamin Fison, / en senal de estima y distinta consideracion / Loreto Noviembre 4 de 1873 / Manuel Rodrigues Pinto Rubens.
Table of contents: title: [Watercolor plate Spanish-language titles]:  Indios Marubos; title: Indios Ticunas; title: Indios Ticunas : el pagé ejerciendo las funciones de medico : Le Pagé (maitre de vite age) qui [...] la fonction a medecins, il a lu du Ayahuasca et su laisse inspirer pour connaitre la maladie et les remettres; title: Indios Ticunas : fête du Hohû (diable) à l'occasion du mariage : in haut [...] l'épouse [...] pagnée des vieilles indiennes, à cotè des musiciens; title: Indios Iquito; title: Indios Yaguas; title: (Danse) Baile de los Yaguas; title: Indigenas Cotos; title: Indios Orejones; title: Indigenas Conuibus; title: Indigenas Chistivos; title: Indigenas Campas; title: Salvagenes Cachivos; title: Indios de Sarayaca; title: Cocamas, llevando sacerdote a la iglesia : Cocamas qui accompagnent le prêtre a l'église; title: Indios Cocamillas : (Enterrement) Entierro celebrado en el pueblo de la Laguna por los indios; title: India Jevero; title: Indios de Chasuta; title: Indios Cargueros de balsa puerta Moyobamba : Manière du voyager dans ces pays; title: Salvagen Láparo; title: Salvagen Givaro; title: Loreto sur la Marañon. Capital de Destrito, en la Provincia del Bajo Amazonas. Latt. S. 3.° 49' 46." Long. W[?] de Greenwinch [sic] 70.° 8.' 30." + est l'́eglise.