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Peru, Natives. Theodore de Bry, [How the Indians Cross Rivers], from Newe Welt und Americanische Historien..., 1631 (published). Hand Color. This interesting engraving is Plate II from Part IX of de Bry's Grands Voyages and was republished in Johann Ludwig Gottfried's Newe Welt und Americanische Historien, a collection of voyages. Also known as Historia Antipodum, Gottfried's work is an abridgement of de Bry's voyages to America that incorporates much new material. Matthaus Merian, de Bry's son-in-law and publisher for Historia Antipodum, was granted access to de Bry's copper-engraved plates. The engraving depicts the various ways that the Indigenous peoples of Peru cross rivers without bridges. Methods include pulling themselves across in a basket on a line and on rafts made of plaited rushes or dried squashes. On a sheet of German text measuring 8.9 x 13.5".