The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Mantle

Powhatan's Mantle [Drawing].
Click image for full-size. In Print: Tradescant's Rarities: Essays on the Foundation of the Ashmolean Museum, 1683, with a Catalogue of the Surviving Early Collections , 131 Description:schematic representation of construction of mantle and of decorative shell bead-work. Missing areas of bead-work are reconstructed with broken lines, on the evidence of surviving stitch-holes