1. European Images of the New World

2. Natives as Cruel, Savage 1590 De Bry Engraving

3. De Bry 1590

4. Powhatan Uprising, 1622

5. Savagery

6. Child Sacrifice

7. The Question of Cannibalism Hans Staden Engraving, 1557

10. Giants and Sea Monsters 1562 Map of America by Diego Gutierrez

11. Spanish Cruelty Depicted As Well De Bry a Protestant who wanted to condemn Spanish Catholicism

12. Yet, also Land of Plenty, Edenic De Bry (and others, such as the Virginia Company, wanted to promote English and Dutch settlement

14. Preparing for a Feast

15. Women Working “The men fish, hunt, and go to war. They don’t want to be seen doing any woman’s work. Most of the time the men do nothing. The women and children do the rest of the work. They make mats, baskets, and pots. They pound their corn, make their bread, prepare their food, plant their corn, gather their corn, bear all kinds of burdens, and such like. --From John Smith, Historie of Virginia, 1624 “The men fish, hunt, and go to war. They don’t want to be seen doing any woman’s work. Most of the time the men do nothing. The women and children do the rest of the work. They make mats, baskets, and pots. They pound their corn, make their bread, prepare their food, plant their corn, gather their corn, bear all kinds of burdens, and such like. --From John Smith, Historie of Virginia, 1624

16. Depicted as Eager to Trade “I gave some of them red caps and gave others glass beads which they hung about their necks. They liked the cheap gifts very much.... They were handsome and in great shape. I think they would be good servants because they repeat whatever I said to them.” --From Christopher Columbus letter; October 12, 1942

17. Attempts at Historical Accuracy De Bry Engraving of a Woman and Child

18. De Bry Engraving Showing Native Body Markings

19. Yet, Still Europeanized View Women fair-skinned, light-haired

20. Figures posed in groups, as in Classical paintings, with Classical-style gestures.

21. Historical, Geographical Inaccuracies (A Mexican icon, temple scene transported to Virginia)

22. Later Portraits even more Romanticized, Europeanized 1700 French engraving of Virginian Indians

23. 1806 Engraving