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Title: Picti icon. I.
Subject: Indigenous man; Picts; Indigenous peoples – Social life and customs; Body art; Indigenous weapons; 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; Secota
Description: An Indigenous man is shown from the front. He carries a shield strapped to his left forearm and a long spear in his right hand. Also in his right hand is a severed human head, another head lays on the ground at his feet. His hair is long, he wears a twisted cord around his neck, and a sword with a curved blade hangs from another cord around his waist. He is nude, and his body is covered in painted designs. 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:21309
Language: lat
Source Name: Admiranda narratio fida tamen, de commodis et incolarum ritibus Virginiæ, nuper admodum as Anglis, qui à Dn. Richardo Greinvile equestris ordinis viro eò in coloniam anno M.D.LXXXV deducti sunt inventæ, sumtus faciente Dn. Waltero Raleigh equestris ordinis viro fodinaru stanni præfecto ex auctoritate serenissimæ reginæ angliæ.
Parent Collection: 1590 Latin a briefe...
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