Priester zu Secota. V. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Priester zu Secota. V.
Subject: Indigenous peoples – North Carolina; Algonquians; Indigenous men; Indigenous religious leaders; Clothing and dress; Indigenous peoples – Virginia
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Virginia; North Carolina; United States of America; North America; Frankfurt (Germany); Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Germany; Holy Roman Empire; Secota
Description: An Indigenous man (a shaman/priest/religious man) is shown standing on the bank of a river, from the front and from behind. He wears a cape-like garment, is barefoot, and wears no other adornment. In the river behind him, other Indigenous people are shown in canoes.
Image Creator: Gysbrecht van Veen (Gijsbert van Veen) (Engraver); John White (Painter); Johann Wechel (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:21340
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
Image: mta_21340_OBJ.png