# Charting New Discoveries of the Manuscript Map of the Dagua River Region

The Manuscript Map of the Dagua River Region, created in 1764, depicts a remote gold mining frontier in today’s Colombia. Art historian Juliet Wiersema and preservation scientist Meghan Hill shared results from their collaborative analysis which unearthed stories about African resilience, adaptation, entrepreneurship and survival within the Spanish empire. An examination of this map further draws back the curtain on how this large watercolor map was assembled using pigments and paper from across the empire.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2024
- Runtime: 59 min
- By: Wiersema, Juliet
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/video-9818/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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