Native Americans [?] sacrifice children on an altar. Includes priests with knives who place the infants on a pyre.
Year: 1662
From: Schultze, Gottfried, De nieuwe bereysde wereldt, Iohannes Tongerloo, La Hague, 1662, frontespiece
Location: The John Carter Brown Library
External link: jcb.lunaimaging.com
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