Das II. Contrafent einer Frauwen auß den Picten. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Das II. Contrafent einer Frauwen auß den Picten.
Subject: Picts; Indigenous peoples – Social life and customs; Body art; Indigenous weapons; Indigenous peoples – Great Britain; Indigenous women
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: North Carolina; United States of America; North America; Frankfurt (Germany); Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Germany; Holy Roman Empire; Secota; Great Britain; Virginia
Description: An Indigenous woman is shown from the front. She carries a spear in her left hand and two in her right. Her hair is long, she wears a twisted cord around her neck, and a sword with a curved blade hangs from another cord around her waist. She is nude, and her body is covered in painted designs. The Picts were an Indigenous group who lived in Britain long before the author’s time. Images of Picts were included in this book so that readers could compare their customs to those of the Indigenous people living in Virginia.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver); John White (Painter); Johann Wechel (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:21447
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; 1590 German
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Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Picts; Indigenous peoples – Social life and customs; Body art; Indigenous weapons; Indigenous peoples – Great Britain; Indigenous women

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