La facon de manger. XVI. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: La facon de manger. XVI.
Subject: Algonquians; Fishing; Indigenous peoples-Fishing-North America; Indigenous cooking; Indigenous peoples-Food-North America; Indigenous peoples – Virginia; Indigenous peoples – North Carolina
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: North Carolina; United States of America; North America; Frankfurt (Germany); Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Germany; Holy Roman Empire; Secota; Virginia
Description: Two Indigenous people are shown sharing a meal. A man sits on the left, and a woman on the right. They sit on a mat on the ground. A large dish with food is between them, and around them are a jug, a pipe, some nuts, a fish, some cobs of corn, and other objects. The man wears a fringed garment draped around his body and over one shoulder and a single feather in his hair. The woman wears a similar fringed garment draped over one shoulder and two strands of beads around her neck.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver); John White (Painter); Johann Wechel (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:20589
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...
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