Natives of Virginia, America, 1818. (Virginia was populated by Cherokee, Shawnee, Lenape, Mingo and other tribes.) The man carries a bow and arrow, and both wear feathers in their hair. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Mary Anne Venning’s A Geographical Present being Descriptions of the Principal Countries of the World, Darton, Harvey and Darton, London, 1818. Venning wrote educational books on geography, conchology and mineralogy in the early 19th century.

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