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Parade Float
A parade float moves down a Richmond street during the Virginia Historical Pageant, held May 22–28, 1922. The banner reads, "Pocahontas-John Rolfe visit Chief Powhatan at his home. Falls of the James 1615." Pocahontas, daughter of Powhatan,…
Tags: ceremony, dress, myths, regalia, stereotypes
Pocahontas
This undated songsheet, published by H. de Marsan of New York, features Pocahontas, a ballad that retells the legendary but likely apocryphal story of how the Indian girl saved the life of the Jamestown settler John Smith in 1607. The sheet is…
Tags: identity, myths, oral history, race
Pocahontas as "Forest Girl"
In this nineteenth-century oil portrait of Pocahontas, artist Robert Matthew Sully depicts the legendary Virginia Indian before her conversion to Christianity and her marriage to the English colonist John Rolfe. Despite the artist's attempt to…
Tags: environment, identity, myths, race, women
Reenactment of John Smith's Rescue
The Virginia Indian Pocahontas pleads for the life of Jamestown colonist John Smith in this reenactment of the legendary 1607 event. Three hundred years after the dramatic rescue, members of the Pamunkey Indian tribe recreated this scene at the…
Tags: myths, oral history, Pamunkey, women
Ples de Virginie
An Indian woman and man pose under a banner that reads, "Ples de Virginie." The first word may be an abbreviation for "peuples" or (peoples), or, less likely, for "perles" (pearls), in reference to the figures' necklaces. Although the engraving…
Tags: colonialism, myths, stereotypes
Smith Rescued by Pocahontas
A hand-colored engraving produced in New York City in the late nineteenth century recreates the perhaps-apocryphal 1607 scene of John Smith being saved by Pocahontas, the daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief of the Virginia Indian political…
Tags: conflict, myths, stereotypes, women
The Abduction of Pocahontas
An early twentieth-century oil painting by Philadelphia artist Jean-Léon Gérôme Ferris presents a dramatic scene of the arrival of Pocahontas, daughter of Indian paramount chief Powhatan, in Jamestown following her abduction by…
Tags: colonialism, conflict, myths, women
What Pocahontas Saw
Historians Helen Rountree and Camilla Townsend deconstruct and demystify the legend of Pocahontas in this January 14, 2007, radio broadcast of With Good Reason, hosted by Sarah McConnell and produced by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.
Tags: Christianity, conflict, environment, food, identity, myths, oral history, Powhatan, women