Can you explain this about pocahontas?

Question

on wikipedia the engraving of "Pocahontas" is disgusting, thats a man! That cant be Pocahontas, right?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pocahontas...

Im not a jerk, i understand they have different standards of beauty but that just is not a woman.

Answer 1

While your link did not work, I found the article. The engraving is dated 1616, so I assume it is fairly accurate.

You are probably familiar with the Disney version of this young woman. Disney portrays Pocahontas as a young girl, and it has a 20th century cultural bias.

The figure in the woodcut has both feminine and Native American features, which suggests it is a fairly accurate depiction. As the woodcut was made in London, and Pocahontas was married to an Englishman, it should not be surprising that she is wearing English clothes of the 17th century, including what most of us would consider a most unlady-like hat.

So, you've been disillusioned. Would you rather be illusioned?

Answer 2

Pocahontas was really a 12 year old girl who John Smith romanticized and never really fell in love with. That could just be a picture of an elderly Pocahontas.

Answer 3

Pocahontas, Political Figure / Legendary Character

* Born: c. 1595
* Birthplace: Werowocomoco, Virginia
* Died: March 1617
* Best Known As: Algonquian princess who befriended English settlers in 1607

Name at birth: Mataoaka

Pocahontas was the nickname of Mataoaka, a young emissary between native tribes and English setters in North America's early Colonial period. Pocahontas was the daughter of Powhatan, an important chief of several tribes of Algonquian Indians in the Chesapeake Bay region (along the coast of Virginia). Although she is one of the most famous Native Americans in history, biographical details are based on few resources and murky at best. Much of the Pocahontas story came from Captain John Smith (1580-1631), an English promoter of colonization whose most well-known account was published several years after their acquaintance. According to Smith, his life was spared only through the intervention of Pocahontas, who at the time was around 12 years old. The story took on a romanticized flavor in the 19th century and over the years has been retold as a love story, but there is general agreement that Smith and Pocahontas were not sweethearts.

Other accounts indicate that Pocahontas was a talented and charismatic child who acted as a go-between for Powhatan and the settlers at Jamestown. In 1613 she was kidnapped by Captain Samuel Argall and held at the fort for a year as a bargaining chip in dealings with her father. In captivity she was baptized and christened Rebecca, and in 1614 married John Rolfe, with whom she had a son, Thomas. In 1616 she was among a group of Algonquian Indians taken to London as part of a plan to popularize Jamestown; she was presented to King James I and made a good impression on the royal family and high society. After seven months in England, Rolfe decided take his family back to Virginia and set sail in March of 1617. Pocahontas immediately became gravely ill and the ship went ashore at Gravesend, England, where she died. Her burial at Gravesend was recorded as taking place on 21 March 1617.

"Pocahontas" means "playful" or "little wanton one"... Many stories speculate that Pocahontas married one of her father's chiefs, Kocoum, sometime between 1610 and 1613... Pocahontas has been depicted in the movies since the early days of cinema, including recently in Disney's 1995 animated feature (Pocahontas, with Mel Gibson as Smith) and The New World (2005, starring Colin Farrell as Smith and Q'Orianka Kilcher as Pocahontas).

FOUR GOOD LINKS:
http://www.apva.org/history/pocahont.html
http://www.powhatan.org/pocc.html
http://pocahontas.morenus.org/index.html
http://vision.stanford.edu/~birch/pocahontas.html

Answer 4

well Pocahantes was an Native American who lived in the area now called virginia and it was there that the whole gettup disney makeover was based she did actually do some stuff from the movie but a lot of the movie is just trash.

Answer 5

that does look like a man

Answer 6

that's seventeenth century for you.
though, I have seen better versions. of the same picture.
never seen her so angry...