Costumes of the Native Americans of Virginia: a warrior in feather skirt with bow, quiver and arrows: and a Powhatan priest of Secota in woven shirt with only one sleeve. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige Völkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. Goedsche (1785-1863) was a German writer, bookseller and publisher in Meissen. Illustration copied from Theodor de Bry's "New Found Land of Virginia," 1590.

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