XX. La Ville de Secota. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: XX. La Ville de Secota.
Subject: Algonquians; Bonfires; Village communities; Indigenous dance – North America; Indigenous peoples – Food – North America; Indigenous peoples – North America – Societies, etc.; Indigenous peoples – Virginia; Indigenous peoples – North Carolina
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: North Carolina; United States of America; North America; Frankfurt (Germany); Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire; Germany; Secota; Virginia
Description: The Indigenous town of Secota is pictured. Multiple structures are grouped along a flattened path. There are cultivated fields all around the structures where corn and other crops are seen in varying stages of growth. There are several bonfires, and in the centre of the village several individuals are grouped around a meal. There is a dance circle where a ceremony is taking place, several people sit and others dance. Elsewhere a few individuals hunt or practice with bows and arrows.
Image Creator: Theodor de bry (Engraver); John White (Painter); Johann Wechel (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:20593
Language: fre
Source Name: Merveilleux et estrange rapport, toutesfois fidele, des commoditez qui se trouvent en Virginia, des facons des naturels habitans d'icelle, laquelle a esté nouvellement descouverte par les Anglois que messire Richard Greinuile chevalier y mena en colonie l’an.1585. à la charge principale de messire Walter Raleigh chevalier surintendant des Mines d'Estain, favorisé par la royne d'Angleterre, et autorisé par ses lettres patentes.
Parent Collection: 1590 French a briefe...; 1590 French a briefe...
Image: mta_20593_OBJ.png
Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Algonquians; Bonfires; Village communities; Indigenous dance – North America; Indigenous peoples – Food – North America; Indigenous peoples – North America – Societies, etc.; Indigenous peoples – Virginia; Indigenous peoples – North Carolina

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