Das IIII. Contrafent eines andern Manns so den Picten benachbawrt. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Das IIII. Contrafent eines andern Manns so den Picten benachbawrt.
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Clothing; Indigenous men; Indigenous weapons; Picts; Indigenous peoples – Great Britain
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Virginia; North Carolina; United States of America; North America; Frankfurt (Germany); Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Germany; Holy Roman Empire; Great Britain; Secota
Description: An Indigenous man is shown from the front. He carries a spear with a ball on the end in his right hand. He wears a belted tunic, and both a round shield and a sword with a curved blade hangs from the belt around his waist. This man is described as belonging to an Indigenous group that lived near the Picts. 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); John White (Painter); Johann Wechel (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:21452
Language: ger
Source Name: Wunderbarliche, doch Warhafftige Erklärung, von der Gelegenheit und Sitten der Wilden in Virginia, welche newlich von den Engelländern, so im Jar 1585. Vom Herrn Reichard Greinuile, einem von der Ritterschafft, in gemeldte Landschafft die zu bewohnen geführt waren, ist erfunden worden, in verlegung H. Walter Raleigh, Ritter und Obersten dess Zinbergwercks, auss vergünstigung der Durchleuchtigsten unnd Unuberwindlichsten, Elisabeth Königin in Engelland
Parent Collection: 1590 German
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