Image of Cocoa
Title
Image of Cocoa
Subject
Native Americans making drink with Cocoa beans
Description
Five Native Americans are brewing a chocolate drink with cocoa beans and cooking instruments.
Creator
John Ogilby, 17th century Scottish cartographer
Source
John Ogilby's America : being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World : containing the original of the inhabitants, and the remarkable voyages thither : the conquest of the vast empires of Mexico and Peru, and other large provinces and territories, with the several European plantations in those parts : also their cities, fortresses, towns, temples, mountains, and rivers : their habits, customs, manners, and religions : their plants, beasts, birds, and serpents : with an appendix containing, besides several other considerable additions, a brief survey of what hath been discover'd of the unknown south-land and the Arctick region
Publisher
London, 1671
Date
1671
Contributor
Metropolitan New York Library Counci, digitizing sponsor
Rights
Public Domain
Relation
Jose De Acosta's "Natural and Moral History of the Indies"
Format
Image within a text
Language
English
Type
Book
Identifier
Ethnographical history of the Indies, describing its peoples, customs, habits etc.
Coverage
Insight into the use of cocoa beans and the way it was used for chocolate drink
Files
Citation
John Ogilby, 17th century Scottish cartographer, “Image of Cocoa,” Food origins, accessed April 27, 2024, https://tenochtitlan.omeka.net/items/show/27.