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  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of illustrations
  6. Introduction | Mark Thurner and Juan Pimentel
  7. Part 1: Artificialia
    1. Codex Mendoza | Daniela Bleichmar
    2. Macuilxóchitl | Juan Pimentel
    3. Potosí | Kris Lane
    4. Piece of Eight | Alejandra Irigoin and Bridget Millmore
    5. Pieza de Indias | Pablo F. Gómez
    6. Rubber | Heloisa Maria Bertol Domingues and Emilie Carreón
    7. Silver Basin | Mariana Françozo
    8. Feathered Shield | Linda Báez Rubí
    9. Black | Adrian Masters
    10. Spanish Deck | Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
    11. Mary’s Armadillo | Peter Mason
    12. Mexican Portrait | Andrés Gutiérrez Usillos
    13. Clay Vessels | Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
    14. Singing Violin | Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
    15. Mestizo Memory Palaces | Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
    16. Creole Cabinet | Juan Pimentel and Mark Thurner
    17. Modern Quipu | Sabine Hyland and William P. Hyland
    18. Inca Mummy | Christopher Heaney
    19. Xilonen | Miruna Achim
    20. Machu Picchu | Amy Cox Hall
  8. Part 2: Naturalia
    1. Amazon | Roberto Chauca
    2. Bird of Paradise | José Ramón Marcaida
    3. Emeralds | Kris Lane
    4. Pearls | Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
    5. Cochineal | Miruna Achim
    6. Opossum | José Ramón Marcaida
    7. Guinea Pig | Helen Cowie
    8. Bezoar | José Pardo-Tomás
    9. Cacao | Peter Mason
    10. Strawberry | Elisa Sevilla and Ana Sevilla
    11. Volcano | Sophie Brockmann
    12. Andes | Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and Mark Thurner
    13. Anteater | Helen Cowie
    14. Megatherium | Juan Pimentel
    15. Tapir | Irina Podgorny
    16. Cinchona | Matthew James Crawford
    17. Potato | Rebecca Earle
    18. Guano | Gregory T. Cushman
    19. Darwin’s Tortoise | Elizabeth Hennessy
    20. Darwin’s Hummingbird | Iris Montero Sobrevilla
  9. Index

INDEX

Academic Society of Patriots of Lima, 4

Acosta, José de, 30, 121

Adanson, Michel, 116

Addison, Joseph, 232–3

Adolphus, Gustavus, 72

Aldrovandi, Ulisse, 202

Alexander the Great, 64

Alonso Martinez de Orteguilla, 81

altepetl (unit of Nahua settlement), 19

Amazonian people, 52–3

Amazon River, 149–54

Americae Pars Meridionale, 149, 151

americana, 197

Amerique Meridionale, 149, 152

Anales de Historia Natural (journal), 117

Andes, 217–24

The Animal World (magazine), 191

anteater, 225–30

Antiquities of Mexico (Kingsborough), 14

armadillo (Mary), 83–5

Arnoldus Montanus, 35

ars memoriae, 112

Asensio, Gaspar, 19

asiento (contract), 58, 172

Auñón, Don Diego Morcillo Rubio de, 36

autos sacramentales, 77

Aznar, Juan Figueroa, 141

Aztec priestess, 135–9

Aztecs, 11–5, 52, 61, 79

Balenciaga, Cristóbal, 74

ball game, 51–2

baptismal basins, 57

baroque pearl, 171

basins, silver, 57–9

bezoars, 195–9

Bien de Interés Cultural (Object of Cultural Interest), 6

Bingham, Hiram, 141–5

biodiversity, 4

bird of paradise, 155–7

black clothing, 67–75

Blacks, and slave trade, 47–50

Blakeley, W.L. Reeves, 55

Blanco, Miguel Ángel, 118

Blue Book (Libro azzurro), 201–2, 204

Boerhaave, Hermann, 198

Bolívar, Simón, 39

Bonaparte, Joseph, 117

Bonaparte, Napoleon, 117

Boselli, Felice, 189

Bourbon reforms, 36–7

Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science (SBPC), 55

Bru, Juan Bautista, 232

Brueghel, Jan, 189

búcaros, 91–4

Buenos Aires, 37

Bust of an Aztec Priestess, 135

Cabinet of Natural History, 226, 227

cacao, 201–6

Cadiz Constitution of 1812, 117

Caesar, Julius, 64

Cahuachi, 187

Cajayauri, Pedro, 123

calapurca, 187

cañengues, 48

Cardano, Girolamo, 184

Cardona, 171–5

cards deck, 77–81

Caribs, 172–3

Carmichael, William, 234

Cartagena, 162

Carta Marina (Waldseemüller), 183

Castro Faria, Luiz de, 55, 56

Cavendish, William, 83

Cavendish Hanging, 83, 84

Cerro Danush, 19

Cerro de Potosí, 28

Cerro Rico (Rich Hill), 23, 24–7, 30, 34–9

Chagall, Marc, 17

Chambi, Martín, 141

Chambon, M., 49

Chanel, Coco, 74

Charles III, 116, 226, 227

Charles V, 62, 71, 72, 161, 178, 202

Cheapside Hoard, 162, 163

Chichimecas, 112

Chilean strawberry, 208, 210–1

China, 27, 30, 57

Chronica da Companhia de Jesu do estado do Brasil (de Vasconcellos), 152

Cieza, 29

cinchona, 241–6

clay vessels, 91–4

Clifford, George, III, 198

Cobo, Bernabé, 187–8

cochineal, 177–82

Codex Mendoza, 11–5, 52, 61, 205

folios, 11–2

production process, 12

publications presenting material from, 14

Codex Ríos, 202

Codex Vaticanus 3738, 202

Codex Vaticanus A, 202

coins, 41–6

Collata, 122, 123, 124

Colombia, emerald belt in, 160–1

Columbus, Christopher, 51

Companhia Ford Industrial do Brasil, 55

Condorcanqui, José Gabriel, 121

conejo de Indias (‘rabbit of the Indies’), 189

contractual articulation, 50

Coqui Pilla, 19

Coqui Piziatao, 19

Cordova Salinas, Creole Diego de, 97, 99

Corpus Christi, festival of, 124

Cortés, Hernán, 62, 178

Creole Cabinet, 115–9

Crown of the Andes, 162

cuarta, 48

Cuauhtémoc, 79

cultural diversity, 4

Cuvier, Georges, 233–4

cuy (Cavia porcellus), 187, 190

Cyrus, 64

d’Abbeville, Nicolas Sanson, 149, 152

Dactylopius coccus, 178

D’Alton, Joseph W.E., 235

Da Mula, Marcantonio, 202

d’Anghiera, Peter Martyr, 184

Danti, Maximiliano, 144

Darwin, Charles, 208

hummingbird, 267–70

tortoise, 259–64

Dávila, Pedro Franco, 3

De Acuña, C., 1 53, 150, 151

De Alzate y Ramírez, José Antonio, 180, 181–2

De Bry, Theodor, 30, 31, 64

De Cardona, Nicolás, 172, 173

De Cardona, Tomás, 172

De Castro, Lope García, 71

deck (Spanish), 77–81

De Coninck, David, 189

De cordoncillo, 42

De Covarrubias y Orozco, Sebastián, 51

De Erauso, Catalina, 105–6

De Givenchy, Hubert, 74

De Gómara, Francisco López, 156

De Islares, Martín, 155

De La Espada, Jiménez, 6

De Laet, Johannes, 15

De las Casas, Bartolomé, 51

Delaune, Étienne, 183

De León, Pedro de Cieza, 28

De Mendoza, Diego Hurtado, 205

De Mogrovejo, Toribio, 100

De Nicuesa, Diego, 237

Denon, Vivant, 136, 137

De Ojeda, Alonso, 237

De Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo Fernández, 17, 51, 155–7, 183, 204

De Pareja, Juan, 72, 73

De Quesada, Gonzalo Jiménez, 161

De Sahagún, Fray Bernardino, 61

Descripción de las Indias Occidentales (Herrera y Tordesillas), 149

De Silva y Velázquez, Diego Rodríguez, 72

De Toledo, Francisco, 24, 27

De Toledo, María Luisa (portrait), 87–90

De Torres, Manuel, 232

De Urdaneta, Andrés, 155

De Vasconcellos, Simão, 152

De Vega, Lope, 93

De Velasco, López, 17

De Villanueva, Juan, 6

Diccionario de autoridades, 5, 5n3

Dillon, John Talbot, 227

Dior, Christian, 74

diversity, 4

Doctor Velasco’s private museum, 6

Ducke, Adolpho, 55

Dupaix, Guillermo, 136

Dürer, Albrecht, 62

Dutch West Indian Company, 59

Eastman Kodak Company. see Kodak

Eckhout, Albert, 189

El acero de Madrid, 93

El Escorial, 117

El Manatí, 52

emeralds, 159–69

Enciso, Martín Fernández de, 237, 238

European Enlightenment, 47

The Feast of Bacchus (Brueghel), 189

feathered shield, 61–5

Florentine Codex, 204

Flores, Ciriaco, 124

Flórez, Manuel Antonio, 190

follis, 51

Foucault, Michel, 5

Four Parts of the World (Delaune and Gheeraerts), 183

‘Four World Monarchies’ scheme, 64

Fragaria chiloensis, 207

Fragaria virginiana, 207

Franco Dávila, Pedro, 116, 118

Franco-Hispanic expedition, 52–3

Frézier, Amédée-Francois de, 208

Friedrich I (Duke of Württemberg), 63, 64

Frischlin, Jakob, 64

Fritz, Samuel, 149, 150, 153

Fusée Aublet, Jean Baptiste Christophe, 53

Galembeck, Fernando, 55

Garcia, Dom, II, 58

gemstones, 161

General and Natural History of the Indies (Oviedo), 155–7

General History of the Things of New Spain (De Sahagún), 61

Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums (Winckelmann), 137

Gessner, Conrad, 84

Gheeraerts, Marcus, 183

Ginzburg, Carlo, 137

glyphs, 19

Google Arts and Culture, 7

Goyeneche Palace, 6

Goyeneche Palace, Madrid, 115

grazing, 21

Great Chain of Being, 113

‘The Great Turk,’ 27

Gregory XIII (Pope), 106

Grillo, Domingo, 48

Grosvenor, Gilbert, 142

guairas, 23

Guaman Poma de Ayala, Felipe, 30, 34, 58

guano, 251–7

guinea pig, 187–93

Gutiérrez Naranjo, Fray, 106

Habsburg emerald cluster, 162, 163

Haematoxylum campechianum, 69, 70

Hainhofer, Philipp, 63

Hakluyt, Richard, 12

Hakluytus Posthumus (Purchas), 14

Hamor, Ralph, 183

harpasso, 51

Hasekura Rokuemon Tsunenaga, 69

Henry of Portugal, 58

Hepburn, Audrey, 74

Herrera el Mozo, Francisco de, 88

H&E staining, 74

Hevea brasiliensis, 54, 55

Hevea guianensis, 53

Hispanic monarchy, 4, 42, 43, 46, 58

Historia general y natural de las Indias (De Oviedo), 17

Historia naturae, maxime peregrinae (Nieremberg), 183–4, 185, 186

Historia natural de las Indias (Durán), 61, 62

History of America, 30

History of the India of the West, 85

A History of the World in 100 Objects (MacGregor), 1

Holguín, Melchor Pérez, 36

Hondius, Henricus, 149, 151

House of the Eagle Warriors, 52

House of Trade, 47

Huallpa, Diego, 23

Huexotzinco Codex, 110, 112

hummingbird, 267–70

hybridisation, of strawberries, 208

Iberian slave trade, 47

iconographic corpus, 17

Inca mummy, 127–33

Inés de la Cruz, Sor Juana, 89

Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), 15

Isatis tinctoria, 71

Islamic cards, 77

Jahan, Shah, 164

José I, King, 117

‘The Kingdom of China,’ 27

Kingsborough, Lord, 14

Kircher, Athanasius, 15

Knight, Thomas A., 208

Kodak, 142, 144–5

Kruysveldt-de Mare, Catharina, 75

La Condamine, Charles Marie de, 52, 53

lahueñe mushca, 210

Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste, 53

Landesmuseum Württemberg, 61–2

The Last Supper, 188

Latin America and the Global History of Knowledge (LAGLOBAL), 1–2, 6, 7

Le commerce de l’Amerique par Marseille, 49

Leopold I, 59

Lequanda, J.I., 2, 2n2, 4, 5

Letter to the King (Guaman Poma), 58

Lettres d’une péruvienne (Letters from a Peruvian Woman), 121

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 55

logograms, 19

Lomelín, Ambrosio, 48

Lost City of the Incas (Bingham), 144

Lubieniecki, Teodor, 189

Luisa, María, 87

Luther, Martin, 72

Lyell, Charles, 234

MacGregor, Neil, 1

Machu Picchu, 141–5

Macuilxóchitl, 17–21

Madrid’s National Museum of Natural Sciences (MNCN), 5

Magalotti, Lorenzo, 94

Magellan–Elcano expedition, 156

Malaspina Expedition, 3

Mamluk playing cards, 79

Marcgraf, Georg, 183

Marcos Sapaca Inca, 187

marsupium, 183

Martialis, Marcus Valerius, 51

Martyr, Peter, 51, 237

Mateo, Huber Brañes, 122

materia medica, 100, 196

Mattioli, Pietro Andrea, 84

Mayans, 69–70

megatherium, 231–6

Megatherium Americanum, 234

Mendizábal, Francisco J., 24

Mengs, Rafael, 226, 227–8

Mercurio Peruano, 3, 4–5

Mestiza of Quito, 208, 209

mestizo memory, 105–13

Mexican deck, 79, 81

Mexican portrait, 87–90

Mexico, 52, 106

within Great Chain of Being, 113

printing tests of cards made in, 81

Michiel, Pier’Antonio, 201–4

minerals, classification of, 116

mining, 37

emerald, 160–1

rationalisation of, 36

mint/minting, 42, 43

mit’a, 24

Moctezuma, 79

Moll, Herman, 35, 36

Monatliche Unterredungen, 57

moneda columnaria, 42

morumotto, 192

Mughal emerald amulet, 159

Mughals, 164

muleke, 48

muleque/muleca, 48

mummy (Inca), 127–33

Mundy, Barbara, 19, 19n2

Museo de la Trinidad, 88

Museo Fernandino, 117

Museum of Natural History, 6

Museum of Natural History, Paris, 233

Museum of Painting, 117

museums

Landesmuseum Württemberg, 61–2

Museum of Natural History, 6

Museum of Painting, 117

National Archaeological Museum, 118

National Geographic Museum, 144

National Museum of Natural Sciences, 5, 6–7, 118

Prado Museum, 6, 116, 117, 118

wall/painted, 2

Muthmann, Friedrich, 58

Myatt, Joseph, 208

Nahua, 12, 52, 112

Nahuatl, 12, 19, 107, 178

National Archaeological Museum (MAN), 118

National Cuy Day, 193

National Geographic, 142, 144

National Geographic Museum, 144

National Geographic Society, 122

National Museum of Natural Sciences (MNCN), 5, 6–7, 118

Naturgemälde (Von Humboldt), 5

neo-primitivism, 17

New World, or Description of the West Indies (De Laet), 15

New World cabinet, 1–2

Nieremberg, Juan Eusebio, 183–5

Nimrod, 64

nocheztli, 178

occidental bezoars, 196–7

Ocelotl, Martín, 52

Oedipus Aegyptiacus (Kircher), 15

opossum, 183–6

Opuntia, 178

The Origin of Species (Darwin), 208

‘Osa Palmera,’ 228

Ottomans, 164

Owen, Richard, 235

paganina, 51

painted museum, 2

paintings

Quadro del Perú, 2–7

palo de Campeche, 67, 70, 74

pearls, 171–5

perpetuum mobile of trade, 156

Peru, 2–7

Spanish deck in, 77

Petiver, James, 198

Philip, King III, 34

Philip II, 161

Philip II (king of Spain), 58, 68, 72, 77

Philip III, 172

Philip IV, 91

Philip V, 36

Philosophical Transactions (Tyson), 183

pictograms, 19

pictorial composition, 5

piece of eight, 41–6

pieza de indias, 47–50

Pigafetta, Antonio, 156

piña (pinecone), 23–4

Pinzón, Vicente Yáñez, 183

playing cards, 77–81

The Pleasures of the Imagination (Addison), 233

Plus Ultra, 34, 41, 42

Popol Vuh, 51

portrait (Mexican), 87–90

potato, 247–50

Potosí, 23–32

mercury refining process, 23–4

silver production, 27, 29, 57

slave market, 29

Pouns, Jean, 78

Prado Museum, 6, 116, 117, 118

Primer nueva corónica, 34

Purchas, Samuel, 12, 14, 15

Quadro del Perú, 2–7

dimensions, 4

Quae pompa delecta ad Regem deferatur, 63–4

Queen America, 64

Quetzalcoatl, 79

quipucamayoc, 5

quipus, 121–4

during Inca period, 122–3

Real Academia Española, 5, 5n4

Real Gabinete de Historia Natural, Madrid, 190

Recco, Giuseppe, 94

Relaciones geográficas (Geographical Accounts of the Indies), 17, 19, 20, 21

Rhetorica christiana, 106–7

Ricci, Matteo, 30, 32–3

Rochín, Roberto, 52

Roume, Philippe-Rose, 233

Royal Academy, dictionary of, 5

Royal Cabinet of Natural History, 116, 117, 232

Royal Museum of Painting and Sculpture, 117

rubber, 51–6

Ruiz, Hipólito, 190

Russo, Alessandra, 19

Salvador, Joan, 197, 198

Salvador i Riera, Joan, 197

Sangro, Raimondo di, 121

Satan’s slaves, 110, 111

scala naturae, 4

Segovia, 27

Selden, John, 12

Shah, Nadir, 168

shield, feathered, 61–5

Sieber, Franz, 53

silver basins, 57–9

silver production, Potosí, 27, 29

slave market, Potosí, 29

slave monopoly, 48

slave trade, 47–50, 58

Sloane, Hans, 179–80

Society of Jesus, 150

Solano, Francisco, 97–102

Somerset House Conference, 1604, 67, 68

Somondoco, emerald mines of, 160

South Sea Company, 35–6

Spaniards, 12, 19, 21, 61–2, 69, 70, 71

‘Spanish’ deck, 77–81

Spanish Empire, 72

Spanish Habsburgs, 34, 42, 67, 69

Spanish/Spanish American peso, 41–6

Spilberg, George, 174

S ply, 123

Staden, Hans, 184

Still Life with a Pigeon and Guinea Pig (Boselli), 189

Still Life with Guinea Pigs (Lubieniecki), 189

strawberry, cultivation of, 207–11

Stuart, Mary (Queen of Scots)

armadillo, 83–5

Stuttgart Castle, 64

Sumaj Urku (Beautiful Mountain), 23

tableau

Tableau physique des Andes et pays voisins (Von Humboldt), 5

Talbot, George, 83

tapir, 237–40

Tarih-i Hindi-i Garbi, 30

Temple of Hathor at Dendera, 136

Tenochtitlan, 107, 108

Tentzel, Wilhelm, 57

textile industry, 44–5

Tezcoco Indians, 73

Thévenot, Melchisédech, 15

Thevet, André, 12, 84

Thiébaut, Louis, 3

Thiéry de Menonville, Nicolas-Joseph, 180

Thirty Years’ War, 72

tinea capitis, 48

Tonalá búcaros, 91–4

Topkapý Dagger, 164, 167, 168

Torres, Javier Núñez, 122

tortoise (Darwin), 259–64

Townsend, Joseph, 227

Treaty of Paris, 117

Treaty of Tordesillas, 1494, 149

Tristes Tropiques (Lévi-Strauss), 55

triumphal entry of America, 63

Trujillo Codex, 3

Túpac Amaru II, 121, 124

Tyson, Edward, 183

ulama, 52

Ulama: el juego de la vida y la muerte (Rochín), 52

Unanue, José Hipólito, 4

uniformitarianism, 234

Valadés, Diego de, 106–13

vanitas, 233

Van Nassau, Johan Maurits, 58–9

Velázquez, Diego, 90, 91, 93

vessels, 91–4

Viceroyalty of Peru, 42

Villa Imperial de Potosí. see Potosí

villancicos, 77

violin (musical instrument), 97–102

Virgin of Charity, 36, 38

Virgin of the Cerro Rico of Potosí, 36, 37

virtual repatriation, 15

volcano, 213–6

Von Humboldt, Alexander, 5, 135, 136–8, 180–1

Voyage dans la basse et la haute Égypte (Denon), 136

Voyage to Jamaica (Sloane), 179

Vues des cordillères et monuments (Humboldt), 138

Waldseemüller, Martin, 183

wall museum, 2

War of Spanish Succession, 197, 198

Weiditz, Christoph, 53

Wickham, Henry, 55

Willdenow, Carl Ludwig, 53

Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 137

Xilonen, 135–9

Xochipilli, 19

Yacapar quipu, 121, 122, 123

Yacatecuhtli, 61

Yapanga de Quito, 208

Yoci Xonaga Bela Laa, 19

Yucatán, 69, 70, 71, 72

Yupanqui, Felipe Velasco Túpac Inca, 123–4

Yupanqui, Manco Inca, 141

Yupanqui, Titu Cusi, 71

Zapata, Marcos, 187, 188

Zapotec tlatoque, 19, 20

Zhizao, Li, 30, 32–3

Zoëga, Georg, 136

Z ply, 123

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