Virginia: costumes, customs, and dwellings of the native Americans. Engraving, 1732.

  • Chatelain, Henri Abraham.
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1732
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563068i
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Virginia: costumes, customs, and dwellings of the native Americans. Engraving, 1732. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Top row, left to right (figs. 1-7): fishing, child care, summer dress, winter dress, priests and rites of passage, women, and courting. Bottom row (figs. 8-14): cooking meat, house building, religion, preservation of cadavers, dancing, fire, and meals

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1732

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1 print : engraving ; image and text 36.7 x 43.5 cm

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Description de la pêche, habillemens, manières de vivre, superstitions, et autres usages des Indiens de la Virginie; le tout fidellement extrait des mémoires et des desseins qui en ont été tirez sur les lieux ... Lettering: tom.: VI; no. 25, page 100

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Wellcome Collection 563068i

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