Codice albumGBB-F-002256

Codice inventarioGBB-F-002256-0000

1860, USA : Tobacco package label showing Pocahontas coming to the defense of Capitain John Smith and appealing to her father, Chief Powhatan, to spare his life. POCAHONTAS (c. 1595 -1617) was a Native American woman who married an Englishman, John Rolfe, and became a celebrity in London in the last year of her life. She was a daughter of Wahunsunacawh (also known as Chief or Emperor Powhatan), who ruled an area encompassing almost all of the tribes in the Tidewater region of Virginia (called Tenakomakah at the time)

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