Year: 1600 · Places: South America, Europe, Africa
SUMMARY"Les Anciennes Indes" tapestries (TikTok: "so-called Black Americans are indigenous... copper colored American Indians"). Record: Gobelins, Paris, woven 1687-88 for Louis XIV from cartoons by Albert Eckhout (figures) and Frans Post (landscapes), made for Johan Maurits, governor of Dutch Brazil (1637-44), who said one could see "all the marvels of Brazil without crossing the ocean." The parasol scene is identified as a Kongolese dignitary (Kongo ambassadors reached Mauritsstad 1642-43), traditionally called a king (Robert Simon). The archer scene shows Brazil's native peoples, painted brown and dark. Lens: Europe's own 1600s artists painted the people of the land dark-skinned (Pattern). Correction for content: the parasol man is labeled African/Kongolese by the sources, not American Indian.