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Figure 1.1 belоw, is аn engrаving titled “Americа, was created arоund 1580 by Flemish (Belgium) engraver Theоdor Galle, based on a drawing by Medici court artist Jan van der Straet. It shows Italian explorer, Amerigo Vespucci (where we got the word “America”). He is “awakening” America. The phrase in Latin may be translated in two ways: “Amerigo rediscovers America; he called her once and thenceforth she was always awake” or “Amerigo laid bare America; once he called her and thenceforth she was always aroused,” giving a distinctly different interpretation of the subject matter. At bottom right is a sloth, and in the background naked people are roasting a human leg on a spit. The engraving projects America as a bountiful land, but with savage peoples. Pocahontas of the Algonquian-speaking Powhatan people in Virginia is perhaps the most famous indigenous woman. Figure 1.9 below represents the well-known but possibly apocryphal story of how she convinced her father, the powerful chief Powhatan, to spare the life of Captain John Smith. An unidentified illustrator prepared this image for Smith’s 1612 account of his adventures. When Smith wrote about the incident (in the third person), he suggests that Pocahontas saved him out of love, but Powhatan descendants and scholars think it was more likely political theater, to make Smith a subject of Powhatan by showing mercy when Powhatan could easily have killed Smith. Other images of Pocahontas, like Figure 1.10 below, come from her trip to England, where she was presented as indigenous royalty and as encouragement for colonization. Her trip sponsor, the Virginia Company, which presumably commissioned the portrait, spent lavishly on her costume, with its rich lace and braid on her tapestry fabric dress that covered her entire body. On her head, Pocahontas wore a high capotain, headwear conventionally reserved for men, and the ostrich feather fan in her hand symbolized royalty. Question 4. First contact Women were also often depicted in scenes of first contact with Europeans. What roles do women play in these encounters, according to European depictions?
Jоhn White, the creаtоr оf Figures 1.4 аnd 1.6, creаted several of the firsthand illustrations in this assignment. He visited the Americas in the 1570s-1590s and carefully recorded the human, plant and animal life he observed there. Figure 1.4 below depicts a coastal Algonquian man and woman, from what is now known as the Outer banks of North Carolina, eating their dinner. Another Englishman on the expedition wrote the following next to the illustraton: “They are very sober in their eatinge, and drinkinge, and consequentlye verye longe lived because they doe not oppress nature.” Engraver Theodor de Bry published a variety of images of the Americas and its people in his 1590 book Great Voyages, a sort of compilation of information from various European explorers meant to encourage Protestant (rather than Catholic) colonization efforts. DeBry himself never visited the Americas, so the illustrations in Great Voyages were usually edits of previous artists’ depictions. Figure 1.5 below modified White’s work when he published this engraving. His version adds nuts, a fish, and corn; there is also a gourd, a pipe, and a shell. John White even recorded clothing and ornamentation. Figure 1.6 below is entitled “A Chief Lady of Pomeiooc and Her Daughter,” depicts the wife of the town’s chief and their child. Accompaning text notes that her skin is tattooed. She wears a three-strand necklace of what was likely pearls and copper, and a fringed skirt that only covers her front. Her daughter also wears beads and a nearly-invisible skin covering her genitals, and she carries a European doll in Elizabethan clothing, likely brought by the English to trade or as a gift. The image below, Figure 1.7, was created over a century later, after English colonization of North America had been well established, by a Virginia-born colonist named Robert Beverley. Beverley was the first native-born colonist to write the history of a British colony. This image appeared in his 1705 book. In this image, “A Woman and a Boy Running After Her,” Beverley has replaced the doll with an “Indian rattle” and an ear of corn and the daughter has become a boy. Historian Joyce Chaplin observes, “It is as if the English had initially been eager to place European objects in native hands, but later they were just as eager to take these things away.” Question 1: Firsthand vs. secondhand: Compare the watercolor depictions of Native American life in Figures 1.4 and 1.6 with their altered and engraved versions in Figures 1.5 and 1.7. What kind of details change between the first and second versions? Why were they changed, do you suppose?
Jоhn White, the creаtоr оf Figures 1.6, аnd 1.8, creаted several of the firsthand illustrations in this assignment. He visited the Americas in the 1570s-1590s and carefully recorded the human, plant and animal life he observed there. John White even recorded clothing and ornamentation. Figure 1.6, below, is entitled “A Chief Lady of Pomeiooc and Her Daughter,” depicts the wife of the town’s chief and their child. Accompaning text notes that her skin is tattooed. She wears a three-strand necklace of what was likely pearls and copper, and a fringed skirt that only covers her front. Her daughter also wears beads and a nearly-invisible skin covering her genitals, and she carries a European doll in Elizabethan clothing, likely brought by the English to trade or as a gift. White also drew Aleutian islanders he encountered in person. He either sailed with the English explorer Frobisher, who captured two Baffin Island (northern Canada) indigenous people and brought them to English, or White may have met these indigenous people after they were brought to London in 1577. Figure 1.8, below, is a woman in a sealskin dress and high boots. Her face is tattooed, and you can see her baby’s face visible inside her hood. Question 3. Motherhood: Europeans were fascinated by the variety of mothering techniques indigenous women used. Why? How do these depictions suggest differences between indigenous and European ideas about motherhood?
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