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THEODOR DE BRY, WILLIAM STRACHEY and JOHN WHITE. 'A cheiff ladye of Pomeiooc'. 'A noble married woman of Pomeiooc'. 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. Travels through Virginia. [From Theodor de Bry's 'America', Vol. I, 1590, after a drawing of John White]. England; 1618. Source: Sloane 1622, f.77. Language: English.

THEODOR DE BRY, WILLIAM STRACHEY and JOHN WHITE. 'A cheiff ladye of Pomeiooc'. 'A noble married woman of Pomeiooc'.  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. Travels through Virginia. [From Theodor de Bry's 'America', Vol. I, 1590, after a drawing of John White]. England; 1618. Source: Sloane 1622, f.77. Language: English.
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'A cheiff ladye of Pomeiooc'. 'A noble married woman of Pomeiooc'. 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. Travels through Virginia. [From Theodor de Bry's 'America', Vol. I, 1590, after a drawing of John White]. England; 1618. Source: Sloane 1622, f.77. Language: English.
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44.3 x 38.2 cm | 17.4 x 15.0 in (300 dpi)