COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Klinger, Johann Georg, 1764-1806
Author:
Müller, Johann Wolfgang
Date:
1807
Short Title:
IV. Tab. 6. Unalafehker = Unalaschkales.
Publisher:
Klinger, Johann Georg, 1764-1806
Publisher Location:
Nuremberg
Type:
View
Obj Height cm:
9
Obj Width cm:
9
Note:
View representing figures indigenous to current-day Unalaska Island of the Aleutian Islands, wearing their traditional attire. The background shows the inside of a building with fish hung from the ceiling. With text in German and French. Hand colored engraving. View is 9 x 9 cm, on card 10 x 9 cm. Appears in IV. Américains.
Region:
Unalaska Island (Alaska)
Region:
Aleutian Islands (Alaska)
Subject:
Ethnography; Nationality; Race
Full Title:
IV. Tab. 6. Unalafehker = Unalaschkales.
List No:
14512.041
Page No:
6
Series No:
41
Engraver or Printer:
Klinger, Johann Georg, 1764-1806
Publication Author:
Klinger, Johann Georg, 1764-1806
Publication Author:
Müller, Johann Wolfgang
Pub Date:
1807
Pub Title:
Description de differens peuples remarquables des cinq parties du monde avec des figures representant leur costume national.
Pub Note:
Description de differens peuples remarquables des cinq parties du monde avec des figures representant leur costume national by Jean Wolfgang Müller and Jean George Klinger. Published by Klinger in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1807. Second edition. Title translates to: Description of different remarkable peoples from the five parts of the world with figures representing their national costume. Board game featuring one world map and one map each of Europe, Asia, Africa, North America and Australia, as well as views of specific indigenous groups for each of those five regions. The game is housed in a box, which is decorated with marbled papers and features a pasted-on, hand-colored engraving of a European explorer amidst a group of indigenous people, all surrounding the title cartouche. The box contains a booklet of descriptive text, world map, game board, 4-page sheet of instructions, and five slipcases, each housing a map of a continent with views of figures indigenous to specific regions, wearing their traditional attire. Each view is accompanied by captions in German and French. The accompanying booklet contains detailed descriptions of the attire, diet and lifestyle of each indigenous group depicted. Pagination: [I-III] IV-SVI, [1-2], 3-127 pages. The game was a collaboration between geographer Klinger and gamemnaker Müller. A German first edition was published in 1801, followed by this second edition in both German and French in 1807. Klinger (1764-1806) was a German map, globe and game maker active in Nuremberg during the early to mid-19th century. He was consider the most prominent globe maker of his generation. Müller (1765-1828) was a Nuremberg-based educator and publisher of playing cards and other games.
Pub List No:
14512.000
Pub Type:
Game
Image No:
14512041.jp2
Authors:
Klinger, Johann Georg, 1764-1806; Müller, Johann Wolfgang
