Print of steel engraving titled „Indiens de Maina. Indienne de Quito. Zambos de Quito. Habitant de la campagne a cheval. “

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Engraved by unknown.

From „Arabie, par M. Noel Desvergers, vice-president de la societe de geographie, Avec une carte de L‘arabie et note sur cette carte, par M. Jomard, membre de l‘institut. Paris, Firmin didot freres, editeurs, imprimeurs de l‘institut de France, 1847.

Maina Indians are a group of tribes who lived or live along the north bank of the Marañón River in South America. They spoke varieties of the Omurano language and resided along the North bank of the Marañón. The Maina were among the first tribes of the upper Amazon region to have been evangelized by the Catholic Church, leading to the naming of several jurisdictions and areas after the tribe, including the province of Mainas, which included the larger part of the present Ecuador and northern Peru, east of the main Cordillera, including the basins of the Huallaga and Ucayali.Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a representative democratic republic in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Ecuador also includes the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific, about 1,000 kilometres west of the mainland.

Approx. image size 17, 3 x 14, 3/12, 6 x 9, 3 cm. Condition: good.