Anonymous / Unknown

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



Edited by: Chiara Petrolini


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