Codice albumBLB-F-068507

Image IDBLB-F-068507-0000

The beauty of the earthenware vessels in which they cook food'. Engraving of a large cylindrical earthenware pot, with conical base, which rests on a wood fire. The pot contains a liquid mixture, with fish, ears of maize, and probably small fruit. Two Native Indians tend the fire one holding a wooden spoon, and the other kneeling figure fanning the flames, from 'Travels through Virginia' from Theodor De Bry's 'America', vol. I, 1590, after a drawing of John White by William Strachey, (England 1618), Sloane 1622, f.84, British Library, London

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