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[QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by davey3: [IMG]http://realhistoryww.com./world_history/ancient/Misc/American_Indian/Apparel.JPG[/IMG] . [/QUOTE]The above illustration is from a book translated by the bookseller John Ogilby from the original Dutch in 1670. The book "America" provides an account of the newly discovered lands in the Americas. Although it is inaccurate, often including fanciful tales of mythical beasts and locations such as the Fountain of Youth https://www.ebay.com/itm/1671-A-Montanus-J-Ogilby-Antique-Print-of-New-York-Native-American-Indians-/372614062265 Artist Unknown John Ogilby published 'America', translated from Arnold Montanus' Dutch text. However, Ogilby added fresh material on the English colonies, supplied by the Proprietors of the various colonies. This original copper-plate engraved antique print, engraving to text, of Native American Indians of New Amsterdam, New York by Arnoldus Montanus was published in the English translation of Arnoldus Montanus De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld: of beschryving van America en t Zuid-Land (translation: America, Being an Accurate Description of the New World) . Montanus, Arnoldus 1625–1683 Montanus was a Dutch teacher and author. He published books on theology, history, and geography of both the Netherlands and far-away countries. Montanus never visited the New World and his work contains numerous errors and fantastic conceptions about the people and animals of the Americas. _________________________________ The first person written accounts would be more reliable than unknown artists who often were never at the physical locations themselves and looking at the text accompanying the above illustration there is a discrepancy starting at the bottom of page 175 of 'America" and then leading to the illustration on page 176 and following text we find the following descriptions of these native New Yorkers p175 [b]" the inhabitants have their hair black as jet, harsh like horse hair"[/b] and p176 [b]Both men and women go for the most part bare headed, the women tie their hair behind in a tuft, over which they wear a square cap wrought with sea shells [/b] 175 [IMG]https://images2.imgbox.com/e5/65/9HY2z6YV_o.png[/IMG] 176 [IMG]https://images2.imgbox.com/42/62/LRojr9mT_o.png[/IMG] 176 [IMG]https://images2.imgbox.com/e5/65/9HY2z6YV_o.png[/IMG] _______________________________________ ^^ Even these written parts are compiled and the original source of the description may not be listed So the better sources are writing by people known to have visited the places they are talking about. I quoted one earlier in the post describing New York Indians. Johannes Megapolensis was a pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church in the Dutch colony of New Netherland (present-day New York state in the United States), beginning in 1642. Serving for several years at Fort Orange (present-day Albany, New York) on the upper Hudson River, he is credited with being the first Protestant missionary to the Indians in North America. He later served as a minister in Manhattan, staying through the takeover by the English in 1664. The minister is best known as the author of A Short Account of the Mohawk Indians, their Country, Language, Figure, Costume, Religion, and Government, first published from his letters by friends in 1644 in North Holland, and being translated into English in 1792 and printed in Philadelphia. He is also known for having assisted the French missionary, Father Isaac Jogues in the 1643 [QUOTE] https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/additional-resources/dutch-treats/early-impressions-of-new-netherland/ The excerpts below are from the writings of the Reverend Johannes Megapolensis in 1644. "They look at themselves constantly, and think they are very fine. They make themselves stockings and also shoes of deer skin, or they take leaves of their corn, and plait them together and use them for shoes. [b]The women, as well as the men, go with their heads bare. The women let their hair grow very long, and tie it together a little, and let it hang down their backs. The men have a long lock of hair hanging down, some on one side of the head, and some on both sides. On the top of their heads they have a streak of hair from the forehead to the neck, about the breadth of three fingers, and this they shorten until it is about two or three fingers long, and it stands right on end like a cock's comb or hog's bristles; on both sides of this cock's comb they cut all the hair short, except the aforesaid locks, and they also leave on the bare places here and there small locks, such as are in sweeping-brushes, and then they are in fine array." [/b] [/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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