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| This is a John White painting of a Native American couple naer Roanoke Island, dining. It is inscribed that they are eating corn and described as being "sober in their eatinge, and trinkinge, and consequentlye verye longe lived because they doe not oppress nature."(image source and quote: Morison) | ||||||||
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| The painting to the left is one done by artist John White of a Native woman and child near Roanoke. Her right arm is in a bead necklace and the band around her forehead is a sign of rank. the child in the painting is a little girl carrying an English doll. It is insribed by Hariot that the children "are greatlye delighted with puppets and babes which wear brought oute of England." (image and quote source: Morison) | ||||||||