A weroan or great Lorde of Virginia. III. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: A weroan or great Lorde of Virginia. III.
Subject: Indigenous peoples - Virgina; Indigenous men; Algonquians; Indigenous Chiefs - North America; Clothing and dress; Indigenous weapons; Indigenous peoples - North Carolina
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire; North America; United States of America; Virginia; Secota; Frankfurt (Germany); North Carolina; Germany
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 (Illustrator); Johann Wechel (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate Engraving
Identifier: mta:20103
Language: eng
Source Name: A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia, of the commodities and of the nature and manners of the natural inhabitants. Discouered by the English Colony there seated by Sir Richard Greinuile Knight in the yeere 1585. Which Remained under the gouernement of twelue monethes, at the speciall charge and direction of the Honourable Sir Walter Raleigh Knight lord Warden of the stanneries who therein hath beene fauoured and authorised by her Maiestie and her letters patents
Parent Collection: 1590 A Briefe and True Report; 1590 A Briefe and True Report
Image: mta_20103_OBJ.jpg
Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Indigenous peoples - Virgina; Indigenous men; Algonquians; Indigenous Chiefs - North America; Clothing and dress; Indigenous weapons; Indigenous peoples - North Carolina

Media: mta_20103_OBJ.jpg