Woman and girl of Pomeiooc,(Whole folio) Engraving of a woman wearing an apron-skirt of fringed skin edged with a single row of beads. She has painted or tattooed decoration on her face,upper arms,and calves,and holds a large bottle-shaped gourd vessel. The girl wears a thong,and holds a doll dressed in Elizabethan female costume,and an English rattle. They are set in a landscape with figures fishing in canoes. From Theodor de Bry's 'America',Vol. I,1590,after a drawing of John White Image taken from Travels through Virginia. Originally published in England; 1618. Author William Strachey,Illustrated by John White,Theodor de Bry |