Native American Woman and Baby

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Title	Native American Woman and Baby
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Alternative Title	X. Their manner of careynge ther Childern and a tyere of the cheiffe Ladyes of the towne of Dasamonquepeuc [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 double portrait depicts a woman carrying a baby on her back. They are standing in front of a coastal scene in which several canoes are visible.
Subject	Indians of North America Women Infants
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: "X. Their manner of careynge ther Childern and a tyere of the cheiffe Ladyes of the towne of Dasamonquepeuc. IN the towne of Dasemonquepeuc distant from Roanoac 4. or 5. milles, the woemen are attired, and pownced, in suche sorte as the woemen of Roanoac are, yet they weare noe worathes vppon their heads, nether haue they their thighes painted with small pricks. They haue a strange manner of bearing their children, and quite contrarie to ours. For our woemen carrie their children in their armes before their brests, but they taking their sonne by the right hand, bear him on their backs, holdinge the left thighe in their lefte arme after a strange, and conuesnall fashion, as in the picture is to bee seene." 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	15 cm H x 21.5 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. 55. 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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