XXII. The Tombe of their Werovvans or Cheiff Lordes. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: XXII. The Tombe of their Werovvans or Cheiff Lordes.
Subject: Indigenous peoples – North Carolina; Indigenous peoples - Virginia; Indigenous peoples - Funeral customs and rites - North America; Indigenous Chiefs – North America; Tombs
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Secota; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire; North America; United States of America; North Carolina; Virginia
Description: A tomb is shown, where the chiefs of this Indigenous group are laid to rest. The tomb sits inside a larger structure. It is set on thick logs that elevate it off the ground. The bodies of the chiefs are laid out side by side on a platform on top of the poles. Walls and ceiling enclose the bodies. At the base of the tomb a man crouches beside a fire.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver); John White (Painter); Johann Wechel (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:20161
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
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Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Indigenous peoples – North Carolina; Indigenous peoples - Virginia; Indigenous peoples - Funeral customs and rites - North America; Indigenous Chiefs – North America; Tombs

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