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Priest and Sorcerer of Virginia
By Bernard Picart after Gysbert van Veen
Engraved book page, 1721
From Ceremonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les
peuples du monde représentées par des figures, avec des
explications (Amsterdam, 1723–43; later editions 1810, 1819)
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John White depicted two types of Indian religious figures, an older man called a priest and a younger man
White called "the flyer"—de Bry titled the latter "the conjurer." On one page Bernard Picart grouped two views of
the priest with a portrayal of the "Magicien de la Virginie," copied closely from the 1590 engravings in de
Bry's America, Part 1.
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