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One of the wyves of Wyngyno – Historic Reproduction

One of the wyves of Wyngyno, [194-] — historic photograph
One of the wyves of Wyngyno, [194-]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This image reproduces a watercolor by John White of a woman identified in its original caption as one of the wives of Wyngyno, a name that points to the Algonquian-speaking community ruled by Wingina along the coast of present-day North Carolina. White made his drawings during the English colony's brief presence in Virginia in the mid-1580s, recording the clothing, body decoration, and daily customs of the people he met. The engraver Theodore de Bry later turned many of these drawings into prints for a 1590 publication, which helped shape how Europeans imagined Native life in the Americas. This photographic print is a mid-twentieth-century copy of the color reproduction that appeared in a 1965 edition of those pictures.

Created / published[194-]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenreWatercolors 1580-1590 Reproductions 1940-1950.Photographic prints 1940-1950.
NotesReproduction of a drawing by John White. Color reproduction published in: The New World; the first pictures of America, made by John White and Jacques Le Moyne and engraved by Theodore de Bry, with contemporary narratives of the French settlements in Florida, 1562-1565, and the English colonies in Virginia, 1585-1590 / Stefan Lorant, ed. New York : Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1965], p. 199 (lower left).
SubjectsIndians of North America--Clothing & dress--Virginia--1580-1590. Indians of North America--Women--Virginia--1580-1590. Spouses--1580-1590.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan934 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-109144

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