South American Indians Ritual Ceremony, 1490s

Ritual ceremony of the South American Indians. It shows the Indians with the sacred maracas or rattles, with a Chief standing in the middle of them smoking a long straight pipe. Illustration from Nova typis transacta navigatio by Gaspar Plautinus, 1621. The 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica states that twelve missionaries accompanied the second Columbus expedition of 1493, under the orders of Bernardo Buil, a Benedictine. An account of Buil and the Benedictine mission was later written by a Benedictine abbot, Caspar Plautius (Kaspar Plautz). A fanciful work with fictional parts and fantastic illustrations, it was published as Nova typis transacta navigatio novi orbis Indiae occidentalis in 1621. Plautius used the pseudonym Honorius Philoponus, dedicating the work to himself

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Conquistador Maracas Rattles Rite Smoker

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