Vt Matronæ Dasamonquepeuc liberos gestant. X. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Vt Matronæ Dasamonquepeuc liberos gestant. X.
Subject: Algonquians; Indigenous peoples – North Carolina; Indigenous women; Indigenous Chiefs-North America; Indigenous mothers; Indigenous children; Clothing and dress; 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 woman is pictured from the front and from behind standing on the bank of a river. She wears a fringed skirt around her waist, her hair is unbound, and she is topless and shoeless. She holds a young child on her back, with the child’s left arm over her shoulder and their left hand in hers, and their right leg tucked under her right arm against her hip. Behind them, other Indigenous people are seen in canoes.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver); John White (Painter); Johann Wechel (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:21275
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...; 1590 Latin a briefe...
Image: mta_21275_OBJ.png
Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Algonquians; Indigenous peoples – North Carolina; Indigenous women; Indigenous Chiefs-North America; Indigenous mothers; Indigenous children; Clothing and dress; Indigenous peoples – Virginia

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