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Oppidum Pomeiooc (The Town of Pomeiooc)
The Roanoke Indian town ofPomeioocis depicted in this colored engraving by Theodor de Bry based on a watercolor painting by John White. Adding considerable detail to White's eyewitness sketch, de Bry shows village life as it was lived by the…
Oppidum Secota (The Town of Secota)
The Roanoke Indian town of Secotan is portrayed in this colored engraving by Theodor de Bry based on a watercolor painting by John White. Adding considerable detail to White's eyewitness sketch, de Bry shows village life as it was lived by the…
Secoton
This watercolor by English artist John White shows a bird's-eye view of the Indian town of Secoton, or Secotan, in the Outer Banks region of present-day North Carolina. White visited the town in July 1585. White's detailed rendering of the town shows…
Senis Pomeioocenfis hiberna vestis (The Winter Attire of an Old Man of Pomeiooc)
An elderly Indian man poses in front of the palisaded town of Pomeiooc in this colored engraving by Theodor de Bry based on a watercolor painting byJohn White. Adding considerable detail to White's eyewitness sketch, de Bry attempts to depict the…
The towne of Pomeiock
This watercolor by English artist John White shows the fortified Indian town of Pomeiock, or Pomeiooc, in the Outer Banks region of present-day North Carolina. White visited the town in July 1585.The Indians who resided there were closely related in…
A Family Portrait
An unidentified Nansemond family poses for an unknown photographer near Portsmouth or Virginia Beach sometime around 1900.
A Monacan Dwelling
A photograph by Bill Johns, taken on September 16, 2006, during the Monacan Fall Festival at Natural Bridge, shows the interior of a replica Monacan Indian dwelling.
Amherst Indian Settlement, Falling Rock. Log Cabin.
A log cabin stands at the Monacan Indian settlement at Falling Rock, near Bear Mountain in Amherst County in 1914. The photographer,Jackson Davis(1882–1947), was a Cumberland County native who took this photograph as part of a series…
Family of John Temple Collins, Group of Six, Near Wood Frame Building OCT 1899
The family of John Temple Collins poses for the photographer De Lancey W. Gill near a wood-frame building on the Pamunkey Indian Reservation in King William County in October 1899.
Gill (1859–1940) was a prolific photographer for the…
Family of Simeon Collins, Group of Eight, Near Wood Frame Building OCT 1899
The Pamunkey family of Simeon Collins, the members of which are unidentified, sits for a portrait by the photographer De Lancey W. Gill on the Pamunkey Indian Reservation in King William County in October 1899. Gill (1859–1940) was a prolific…