Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Their manner of careynge ther Childern and a tyere of the cheiffe Ladyes of the towne of Dasemonquepeuc.

Accession number: 
06192
Record number: 
06192-12
JCB call number: 
J590 B915v GV-E.l [F] / 2-SIZE
Image title: 
Their manner of careynge ther Childern and a tyere of the cheiffe Ladyes of the towne of Dasemonquepeuc.
Creator 1: 
John White
Creator 1 dates: 
fl. 1585-1593
Creator 2: 
Theodor de Bry
Creator 2 dates: 
1528-1598
Creator 2 role: 
[engraver]
Place image published: 
[Frankfurt]
Image publisher: 
[J. Wechel, for T. de Bry]
Image date: 
[1590]
Image function: 
illustration; plate X
Technique: 
engraving
Image dimension height: 
14.9 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width: 
21 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height: 
32.5 cm.
Page dimension width: 
22.8 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Description: 
A native American woman carrying a child on her back is shown from back and front. Behind her, native Americans in canoes fish.
Source creator: 
Hariot, Thomas, 1560-1621
Source Title: 
A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia. ...
Source place of publication: 
Francoforti [Frankfurt]
Source publisher: 
Ad Moenum Typis Ioannis Wecheli, Sumptibus Vero Theodori De Bry
Source date: 
Anno MDXC. ... [1590]
notes: 
The engraving is after a watercolor by John White. Text describes the way native Americans of Virginia carried their children. Theodor De Bry's America. Part I. English.
Time Period: 
1492-1600
References: 
Hulton, P. and Quinn, D.B. The American Drawings of John White 1577-1590, vol. II, pl. 127a, no. 37B, cf. pl. 34.
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired in 1967.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
Commentary: 
geographic area: 
North America
Subject Area: 
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area: 
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings: 
Fishing
Subject headings: 
Indians of North America