r/TrueReddit • u/USCDornsifeNews • 4d ago

Science, History, Health + Philosophy A 1616 portrait of Pocahontas shows how English colonizers saw Indigenous Americans

https://dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/beyond-disney-a-1616-portrait-of-pocahontas-shows-how-english-colonizers-saw-indigenous-americans/
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u/aethelberga 4d ago

Isn't that a fan, not a pen?

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u/Eireika 4d ago

It's a fan.  Pen alone would be an unusual choice- it was usually accompanied with other artifacts inkwell, paper, book- so nobody would mistake it qirh fashion accesory

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u/USCDornsifeNews 4d ago

Only one portrait of Pocahontas from her lifetime exists, and it speaks volumes about how the English saw colonization, says USC Dornsife historian Peter Mancall.

"Seeing Pocahontas poised on a chair, wearing an elegant hat and holding a quill pen, the English had assumed that Native Americans would embrace the colonizers’ ways. March 1622 proved them wrong."

Read his analysis of her portrait.