Codice albumGBB-F-002252

Codice inventarioGBB-F-002252-0000

1870, USA : Pocahontas (Virginia, 1595 ca Gravesend, 21 march 1617) save the life of Captain John Rolfe, New England Chromo. Lith. Co., USA. Pocahontas (born Matoaka, and later known as Rebecca Rolfe, c. 1595 March 1617) was a Virginia Indian12 notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. Pocahontas was the daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief of a network of tributary tribal nations in the Tidewater region of Virginia. In a well-known historical anecdote, she is said to have saved the life of an Indian captive, Englishman John Smith, in 1607 by placing her head upon his own when her father raised his war club to execute him

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