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Book or Pamphlet

Naw-Kaw or Wood

Date: 1838
Description: Naw-Kaw or Wood. Hand-colored lithograph from History of the Indian Tribes of North America.
Book or Pamphlet

Ball Play on the Prairie

Date: 1884
Description: Native Americans playing a lacrosse-like game of ball.
Book or Pamphlet

Guarding the Cornfields

Date: 1884
Description: Indian women standing on platforms make noise to scare birds from the cornfield.
Book or Pamphlet

Gathering Wild Rice

Date: 1884
Description: Three women in a canoe harvest wild rice.
Print

Historia Antipodum oder Newe Welt

Date: 1655
Description: Frontispiece to Newe Welt vnd americanische Historien (1655).
Map or Atlas

Map of Virginia Coast

Date: 1655
Description: Map of Virginia Coast based on observations by Captain John Smith.
Print

Outina and His Army

Date: 1655
Description: Engraving made after a painting by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (died 1588) while on the Laudonnière Expedition in Florida, ca. 1564.
Print

Killing Alligators

Date: 1655
Description: Engraving made after a painting by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (died 1588) while on the Laudonnière Expedition in Florida, ca. 1564.
Print

Royal Marriage and Reception by the Sovereign

Date: 1655
Description: Engraving made after a painting by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (died 1588) while on the Laudonnière Expedition in Florida, ca. 1564.
Print

Sacrifice of First-born Children

Date: 1655
Description: Engraving made after a painting by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (died 1588) while on the Laudonnière Expedition in Florida, ca. 1564.
Print

How Indians Treat Their Sick

Date: 1655
Description: Engraving made after a painting by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (died 1588) while on the Laudonnière Expedition in Florida, ca. 1564.
Print

Dress of the Indians

Date: 1655
Description: Depicts Indians encountered on the Barlowe and Amadas Expedition in Virgina, ca. 1584.
Print

Constructing Boats

Date: 1655
Description: Engraving made after a watercolor painting by John White during the Barlowe Expedition in Virginia, 1585-1587.
Print

English and Mermaids

Date: 1655
Description: Scene of the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, ca. 1614 showing men at the water's edge being beckoned by mermaids.
Print

Indian Techniques of Fishing and Stag-hunting

Date: 1655
Description: Scene near Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, ca. 1614.
Print

Columbus Meets with a Cacique in Marien Province, Haiti

Date: 1655
Description: Encounter with Indians during Christopher Columbus' first expedition in 1492.
Print

Vespucci Arrives in Paria; Customs of the Indians

Date: 1655
Description: Scene from the Vespucci Expedition, 1499.
Print

Indians Tending the Sick

Date: 1655
Description: Scene from the Vespucci Expedition, 1499.
Print

Surprise Attack on the Lake City of Aruba

Date: 1655
Description: Battle during the Vespucci Expedition, 1499.
Print

Dragons Chained for Later Roasting

Date: 1655
Description: Scene from the Vespucci Expedition, 1499.

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