Pourtraict d’une ieune fille Picte. III. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Pourtraict d’une ieune fille Picte. III.
Subject: Picts; Indigenous peoples – Social life and customs; Body art; Indigenous weapons; Indigenous peoples – Great Britain; Indigenous women
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: North Carolina; United States of America; North America; Great Britain; Frankfurt (Germany); Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Germany; Holy Roman Empire; Secota; Virginia
Description: A young Indigenous woman is shown from the front. She carries a spear in her left hand. Her hair is long, she wears a twisted cord around her neck, and a sword with a curved blade hangs another cord around her waist. She is nude, and her body is covered in painted designs. The Picts were an Indigenous group who lived in Britain long before the author’s time. Images of Picts were included in this book so that readers could compare their customs to those of the Indigenous people living in Virginia.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver);Jacques le Moyne de Morgues (Painter);Johann Wechel (Printer); Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Jacques le Moyne de Morgues (Painter); Johann Wechel (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:20600
Language: fre
Source Name: Merveilleux et estrange rapport, toutesfois fidele, des commoditez qui se trouvent en Virginia, des facons des naturels habitans d'icelle, laquelle a esté nouvellement descouverte par les Anglois que messire Richard Greinuile chevalier y mena en colonie l’an.1585. à la charge principale de messire Walter Raleigh chevalier surintendant des Mines d'Estain, favorisé par la royne d'Angleterre, et autorisé par ses lettres patentes.
Parent Collection: 1590 French a briefe...; 1590 French a briefe...
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Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Picts; Indigenous peoples – Social life and customs; Body art; Indigenous weapons; Indigenous peoples – Great Britain; Indigenous women

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