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What Can the Miami History Museum Tell Us?

July 2, 2020

Interesting information may also be found at the Miami History Museum. Among its exhibits, there is an image of a chief of the Seminole tribe. The author of this portrait is an American naturalist, William Bartram, who embarked on a journey around Southern territories from 1773 to 1777. He shared his observations and research in his book Travels in North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida*. This book contains the aforementioned portrait exhibited in the Miami museum. Bartram’s…

Giants…Truth or Fiction?

June 26, 2020

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The engraving that we saw at the National Historical Museum of Buenos Aires impresses with the height of the native of Patagonia. The inscription under the engraving states: “The myth of the Patagonian giants is part of the European imagination and perception of the American continent.” However, according to the narratives of the travelers of the 18-19th centuries, the shortest Patagonian was about 2 meters tall.

First Nations as Seen by Travelers of the 17-19th Centuries

May 20, 2020

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“I never saw men better made, and whose limbs were more proportionate: in order to paint a Hercules or a Mars, one could no where find such beautiful models. Nothing distinguishes their features from those of the Europeans: and if they were cloathed; if they lived less in the open air, and were less exposed to the sun at noon, they would be as white as ourselves…” (Bougainville)