XX. The Towne of Secota. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: XX. The Towne of Secota.
Subject: Indigenous dance – North America; Indigenous peoples – North Carolina; Indigenous peoples - Virginia; Indigenous peoples - Food - North America; Bonfires; Village communities
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Secota; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire; North America; United States of America; North Carolina; Virginia
Description: The Indigenous town of Secota is pictured. Multiple structures are grouped along a flattened path. There are cultivated fields all around the structures where corn and other crops are seen in varying stages of growth. There are several bonfires, and in the centre of the village several individuals are grouped around a meal. There is a dance circle where a ceremony is taking place, several people sit and others dance. Elsewhere a few individuals hunt or practice with bows and arrows.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver); John White (Painter); Johann Wechel (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:20144
Language: eng
Source Name: A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia, of the commodities and of the nature and manners of the natural inhabitants. Discouered by the English Colony there seated by Sir Richard Greinuile Knight in the yeere 1585. Which Remained under the gouernement of twelue monethes, at the speciall charge and direction of the Honourable Sir Walter Raleigh Knight lord Warden of the stanneries who therein hath beene fauoured and authorised by her Maiestie and her letters patents
Parent Collection: 1590 A Briefe and True Report
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