Native Americans Eating, 16th Century
by British Library
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Native Americans Eating, 16th Century
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British Library
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Photograph - Photograph
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Illustration of two Native Americans seated on a strip of matting, eating from a large circular dish containing grains of food. The woman wears a necklace of beads, and a fringed skin robe over her left shoulder. The man wears a fringed deerskin mantle. On the mat is a gourd water vessel with carved out handle, skin bag, tobacco pipe, walnut, fish, four ears of maize, and a scallop shell. Illustration Theodor de Bry after John White, c. 1590. Although de Bry never set foot in the New World himself, he made many copies of watercolors by other artists, often making them look more European. The engravings are some of the earliest, if not necessarily the most accurate, surviving records of the Native Americans of the period.
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