Ein edel Weib von Pomeiooc. VIII. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Ein edel Weib von Pomeiooc. VIII.
Subject: Indigenous peoples – North Carolina; Algonquians; Indigenous women; Indigenous Chiefs-North America; Indigenous children; 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 woman, a chief, is pictured standing on the bank of a river. Her hair is knotted at the nape of her neck, she wears several strands of beads around her neck, and her right wrist is cradled in the beads. She wears a fringed skirt around her waist and is topless and shoeless. She holds a large pot/container in her left hand. Beside her is a child, nude except for two strands of beads around their neck. The child holds a doll dressed like an English lady in one hand, and an object similar to a rattle in the other. Behind the pair, other Indigenous people are seen in canoes.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver); John White (Painter); Johann Wechel (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:21346
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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