Native Americans Around a Fire

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Title	Native Americans Around a Fire
Title Note	Title supplied by repository.
Alternative Title	XVII. Their manner of prainge with Rattels abowt te fyer [Caption accompanying this engraving in the English translation of this text.]
Creator	Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598.
Contributor	White, John, fl. 1585-1593.
Date	1590
Creation Date	1590
Description	This image depicts a group of Native Americans sitting around a fire. There is a coastal scene in the background.
Subject	Indians of North America Fire Prayer
Subject Name	Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598. White, John, fl. 1585-1593.
Subject Topical	North Carolina -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800 Indians of North America -- North Carolina Roanoke Colony
Subject Geographic	Roanoke Island (N.C.) Outer Banks (N.C.) Great Britain -- Colonies
Geographic Location	Roanoke Island, North Carolina, United States
Notes	In the English translation of this text, Thomas Hariot describes this image: "XVII. Their manner of prainge vvith Rattels abowt te fyer. VVhen they haue escaped any great danger by sea or lande, or be returned from the warr in token of Ioye they make a great fyer abowt which the men, and woemen sist together, holdinge a certaine fruite in their hands like vnto a rownde pompiÃµ or a gourde, which after they haue taken out the fruits, and the seedes, then fill with smal stons or certayne bigg kernellt to make the more noise, and fasten that vppon a sticke, and singinge after their manner, they make merrie: as myselfe obserued and noted downe at my beinge amonge them. For it is a strange custome, and worth the obseruation." Source: Thomas Hariot, "A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia." Frankfort: Theodore De Bry, 1590.
Original Form	Books
Resource Type	Image
Physical Description of Original	26.5 cm H x 18.5 cm W
Medium of Original	Paper
Collection in Repository	North Carolina Collection
Is Part Of	[America. pt. 1. German] Wunderbarliche, doch warhafftige Erklärung, von der Gelegenheit vnd Sitten der Wilden in Virginia ... Erstlich in engelländischer Sprach beschrieben durch Thomam Hariot, vnd newlich durch Christ. P. in Teutsch gebracht. Franckfort am Mayn, Gedruckt bey J. Wechel, in Verlegung D. Bry, 1590. North Carolina Collection call number FVCC970.1 H28w.
Digital Collection	DeBry Engravings
Repository	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. North Carolina Collection.
Host	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
path	\ncc\debry\
Local Identifier	FVCC970.1 H28w
Citation	In "Wunderbarliche, doch warhafftige Erklärung, von der Gelegenheit vnd Sitten der Wilden in Virginia . . ." [America, pt. 1, German], Frankfort: Theodore De Bry, 1590, p. 79. North Carolina Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Related Resource	The full text of Thomas Hariot's "A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia" is available online through Documenting the American South at http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/hariot/menu.html
Copyright Holders	Public domain

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