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Title |
Native Americans Fishing |
Title Note |
Title supplied by repository. |
Alternative Title |
XIII. Their manner of fishynge in Virginia [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 fishing scene depicts four Native Americans in a canoe. Two are tending a fire in the middle of the canoe while the others are fishing with nets or spears. There are many fish visible in the image, including crabs, turtles, and sharks. 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. |
Subject |
Indians of North America Fishing Canoes Fish |
Subject Name |
Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598. White, John, fl. 1585-1593. |
Subject Topical |
Indians of North America--North Carolina. Roanoke Colony. |
Location |
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: "XIII. Their manner of fishynge in Virginia. THey haue likewise a notable way to catche fishe in their Riuers for whear as they lacke both yron, and steele, they faste vnto their Reedes or longe Rodds, the hollowe tayle of a certaine fishe like to sea crabb in steede of a poynte, wehr with by nighte or day they stricke fishes, and take them op into their boates. They also know how to vse the prickles, and pricks of other fishes. They also make weares, with settinge opp reedes or twigges in the water, which they soe plant one within a nother, that they growe still narrower, and narrower, as appeareth by this figure. Ther was neuer seene amonge vs soe cunninge a way to take fish withall, wherof sondrie sortes as they fownde in their Riuers vnlike vnto ours. which are alfo of a verye good taste. Dowbtless yt is a pleasant sighte to see the people, somtymes wadinge, and goinge somtymes sailinge in those Riuers, which are shallowe and not deepe, free from all care of heapinge opp Riches for their posterite, content with their state, and liuinge frendlye together of those thinges which god of his bountye hath giuen vnto them, yet without giuinge hym any thankes according to his desarte. So sauage is this people, and depriued of the true knowledge of god. For they haue none other then is mentionned before in this worke." 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 |
32 cm H x 26 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. 63. 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 |
Public Domain |