Native American Man and Woman Eating

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Title	Native American Man and Woman Eating
Title Note	Title supplied by repository.
Alternative Title	XVI. Their sitting at meate [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	Two Native Americans are shown sitting with a large plate of food between them. Other foods are shown in the foreground, including fish, nuts, and corn.
Subject	Indians of North America Women Food Eating & drinking
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: "XVI. Their sitting at meate. THeir manner of feeding is in this wise. They lay a matt made of bents one the grownde and sett their meate on the mids therof, and then sit downe Rownde, the men vppon one side, and the woemen on the other. Their meate is Mayz sodden, in suche sorte as I described yt in the former treatise of verye good taste, deers flesche, or of some other beaste, and fishe. They are verye sober in their eatinge, and trinkinge, and consequentlye verye longe liued because they doe not oppress nature." 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	15.5 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. 69. 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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