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[How the chief ladies of the town of Dasamonquepeio dress and carry their children] / T.B.
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Full-length, front and back portraits of a Native woman of Dasamonquepeio showing manner of dress and way of carrying a child on her back; view of river and landscape in the background.
Illus. in: Admiranda narratio, fida tamen, de commodis et incolarvm ritibvs Virginiæ [...]. Wecheli : svmtibvs T. de Bry, 1590, [plate] 10.
Engraving by Theodor de Bry after watercolor by John White.
Title transcribed from Lorant, p. 245.
The New World [...] / Lorant, ed. New York : Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1965, p. 245
Reference copy in SSF (Gr) - Indians of North America Women.
The Native Americans were the first inhabitants of the Americas. They settled in different regions and formed independent tribes with distinct cultures. By 1492 there were over 300 separate native languages. When Christopher Columbus landed on October 12, 1492, he thought he had reached India, and called the native people Indians, a name which gave them a collective identity. The Indians, Columbus reported, "are so naive and so free with their possessions that no one who has not witnessed them would believe it. When you ask for something they have, they never say no. To the contrary, they offer to share with anyone...."
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