The term “India” or “India Superior” was historically used to refer to the Americas, or some parts of it, and the West Indies… When Christopher Columbus landed on Hispaniola (modern Haiti and the...
On the island of Luzon, in the Philippines, lives a nomadic tribe of the Aeta people, an indigenous tribal people who have been isolated, by choice, from the rest of the world for thousands of years....
Now this one is — one of the clearest examples of 17th-century European engravers showing American Indians with explicitly dark, “Negroid” features. Let’s keep it right in its own time (late 1600s)...
Perfect let’s work this one. Again, we’ll stay in-period — 16th–17th century words only — and line them against what the engraver shows. --- Cartouche: Novus Orbis sive America Meridionalis et...