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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
0947
Record number:
0947-004
JCB call number:
J Hulsius pt. 13 1617 1
Image title:
[Powhatan's sons negotiate for their sister's release]
Place image published:
Hanau
Image publisher:
In Verlegung der Hulsischen
Image date:
1617
Image function:
plate, p. 16
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
13 cm.
Image dimension width:
16.2 cm.
Page dimension height:
15.4 cm.
Page dimension width:
19.8 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
English soldiers with a native American woman confront native American soldiers. In the background, Englishmen arrive in boats from ships and are greeted by natives. Includes a native American settlement named Matzkot.
Source creator:
Hamor, Ralph, -1626
Source Title:
Dreyzehende Schiffahrt darinnen ein Warhafftiger vnd Gründtlicher Bericht, von dem jtzigen Zustandt der Landtschafft Virginien; auch wie nunmehr der Friede mit den Indianern beschlossen: vnd wie etliche Städte vnd Vestunge alda zum Schutz des Landtes von den Engelischen auffgebawet worden
Source place of publication:
Hanaw
Source publisher:
In Verlegung der Hulsischen
Source date:
M DC XVII.
notes:
Text describes how two of Powhatan's sons came to the English camp up a Virginia river to see if their sister, Pocahontas or Matoaka, was still alive. A similar image was published by Johann Theodor de Bry, America. Pt. 10. This is the first issue of the first edition and was printed in the 13th part of Levnius Hulsius, Sammlung von sechs und zwanzig Schiffahrten, printed in 26 parts between 1598 to 1663.
Time Period:
1492-1600
References:
Church, E.D. Discovery, no. 303
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1846.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
North America
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners
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