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Priest Manuel M. Albis, with Converted Mocoa Indians, Caquetá Territory.
Presbítero Manuel Ma. Albis, indios reducidos de Mocoa: Territorio del Caquetá
[place of publication not identified] :
[publisher not identified],
1857.
1 online resource.
Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
Original resource extent: Watercolor on paper ; 24 x 32 centimeters.
This watercolor by Manuel María Paz (1820-1902) shows the priest Manuel Albis with Mocoa Indians who had become Catholics. Albis is known to have been interested in learning about the peoples he encountered in southern Colombia, and published scholarly work on the Andaquí language spoken by people living near Mocoa (also called Lowland Inga). These groups lived along the upper Caquetá and Putumayo Rivers in present-day Caquetá Department. The watercolor is typical of Paz's work, which captured the diversity of the population of Colombia and depicted the daily activities and traditional customs of the country's different ethnic, racial, and social groups. Paz was born in Almaguer in the province of Cauca. He joined the Colombian army at a young age and showed exceptional skills as a cartographer and painter. In 1853 he took over the role of draftsman of the Comisión Corográfica (Chorographic Commission) formerly held by Henry Price (1819--63). The commission, which began work in 1850, was tasked with studying the geography, cartography, natural resources, natural history, regional culture, and agriculture of the Republic of New Granada (present-day Colombia and Panama). Paz worked under Agustín Codazzi (1793--1859), the Italian-born geographer and engineer who co-founded and directed the commission. In 1859, at Codazzi's death, Paz was among the collaborators who took on the task of reviewing, completing, and publishing the work that the Comisión Corográfica had undertaken since 1850. As a draftsman, Paz executed watercolors and drawings that were very exact and strove to represent the places and people of Colombia in a naturalistic and objective style. These pictures constitute invaluable documentary records for the history and culture of Colombia. They also provided information pertinent to drawing up the maps that were one of the main objectives of the Comisión Corográfica. More than 90 paintings by Paz are preserved at the National Library of Colombia.
Original resource at:
National Library of Colombia.
Content in Spanish.
Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.
1857
Albis, Manuel María
Camsa Indians
Catholic Church--Missions
Expeditions and surveys
Indians of South America
Indigenous peoples
Missionaries
Priests
Regional Memory of the World Register, Scientific Memory of Andean America
Colombia. Comisión Corográfica
Sponsor.
Paz, Manuel María, 1820-1902
Artist.
Colombia
Caquetá
Colección Comisión Corográfica
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