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Rating |
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Title |
Ancient British Woman |
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Title Note |
Title supplied by repository. |
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Alternative Title |
The trvve picture of a vvomen nigbour to the Pictes V [Caption accompanying this engraving in the English translation of this text.] |
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Creator |
Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598. |
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Contributor |
White, John, fl. 1585-1593. |
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Date |
1590 |
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Creation Date |
1590 |
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Description |
British woman shown wearing a sword and holding a long spear. There is a fence, a house, and a stream visible in the background. Note: These DeBry engravings do not accurately reflect the inhabitants of North Carolina in the late sixteenth century nor are they accurate reproductions of John White’s drawings. The colorist for this volume has contributed to the distortion of the original images by adding a pale skin tone and blonde hair to some of the people and decorating much of the vegetation in colors that are unlike anything that occurs naturally in this part of the world. |
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Subject |
Women
Spears
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Subject Name |
Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598.
White, John, fl. 1585-1593. |
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Subject Topical |
Great Britain--Ethnology.
Britons. |
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Location |
Great Britain |
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Geographic Location |
Great Britain |
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Notes |
In the English translation of this text, Thomas Hariot describes this image: "The trvve picture of a vvomen nigbour to the Pictes V. THeir woemen wear apparelled after this manner, butt that their apparell was opne before the brest, and did fastened with a little lesse, as our woemen doe fasten their peticott. They lett hange their brests outt, as for the rest the dyd carye suche waeppens as the men did, and wear as good as the men for the warre." Source: Thomas Hariot, "A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia." Frankfort: Theodore De Bry, 1590. |
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Original Form |
Books |
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Resource Type |
Image |
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Physical Description of Original |
23 cm H x 16 cm W |
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Medium of Original |
Paper |
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Collection in Repository |
North Carolina Collection |
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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. |
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Digital Collection |
DeBry Engravings |
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Repository |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. North Carolina Collection. |
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Host |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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path |
\ncc\debry\ |
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Local Identifier |
FVCC970.1 H28w |
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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. 115. North Carolina Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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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 |
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Copyright |
Public Domain |
