Der fürsten und herrn in Virginia abcontrafentung. III. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Der fürsten und herrn in Virginia abcontrafentung. III.
Subject: Indigenous peoples – North Carolina; Algonquians; Indigenous men; Indigenous Chiefs-North America; Clothing and dress; Indigenous weapons; 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 male is pictured standing on a hill, from the front and from behind. He wears beaded necklaces, beads around his left wrist and a cuff/wrist guard on his right, and fabric in the fasion of a fringed skirt tied around his waist. He is barefoot and shirtless, carries a longbow, and wears a quiver of arrows around his waist. In the background behind him there is a group of Indigenous people also holding longbows, and four people hunt deer. A forest is visible in the background.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver); John White (Painter); Johann Wechel (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:21331
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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