Rating |
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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. 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 Women Food Eating & drinking |
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: "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 |
Public Domain |