'their sitting at meate'. Engraving of two figures seated on a strip of matting, eating with their right hands from a large circular dish containing grains of food. The woman wears a necklace of beads, and a fringed skin robe over her left shoulder. The man wears a fringed deerskin mantle. On the mat is a gourd water vessel with carved out handle, skin bag, tobacco pipe, walnut, fish, four ears of maize, and a scallop shell. Date: 1618. Collection: British Library.
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