Theire sitting at meate
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Theire sitting at meate
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A pair of Indians sit on a reed mat and eat from a wooden platter in this original watercolor by John White, the English artist who in 1585 accompanied a failed colonizing expedition to Roanoke Island in present-day North Carolina. In the course of his year-long sojourn in the region, White depicted various aspects of the native Indians lives and culture, including their diets. The Indians shown here are probably eating a meal of hulled corn—that is, corn that has been boiled to remove the hulls. A later, engraved version of this image by Theoodor de Bry appeared in Thomas Hariots A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia and included some embellishments not found in the original watercolor—among them, a gourd for water, a pipe, a tobacco pouch, a stack of corn, a fish, a shell, and a walnut shown lying on the mat. In Hariots description of the image he commented on the fact that the Indians were verye sober in their eatinge, and trinkinge [drinking], and consequentlye verye longe lived because they doe not oppress nature.
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John White: Creator (cre)
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Theire sitting at meate
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