![[ Method by which native Floridians discuss matters of grave importance ] Qua ratione Floridenses de seriis rebus deliberant. XXIX. By Theodor De Bry](https://storage.googleapis.com/raremaps/img/small/97363.jpg)
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Fascinating image of Native Americans conducting a meeting, from De Bry's Voyages.
At center, a Native American man presides over a meeting with his back to the viewer and his arms extended at his sides. A group of Native American men sit on a bench surrounding him while passing around a shell from which the men are drinking; two of the men are vomiting. In the right foreground, three women are boiling and mixing a liquid concoction.
Several Europeans with guns and spears talk amongst themselves in the left foreground.
Theodor de Bry (1528-1598) was a prominent Flemish engraver and publisher best known for his engravings of the New World. Born in Liege, de Bry hailed from the portion of Flanders then controlled by Spain. The de Brys were a family of jewelers and engravers, and young Theodor was trained in those artisanal trades.
As a Lutheran, however, his life and livelihood were threatened when the Spanish Inquisition cracked down on non-Catholics. De Bry was banished and his goods seized in 1570. He fled to Strasbourg, where he studied under the Huguenot engraver Etienne Delaune. He also traveled to Antwerp, London, and Frankfurt, where he settled with his family.
In 1590, de Bry began to publish his Les Grands Voyages, which would eventually stretch to thirty volumes released by de Bry and his two sons. The volumes contained not only important engraved images of the New World, the first many had seen of the geographic novelties, but also several important maps. He also published a collection focused on India Orientalis. Les Grands Voyages was published in German, Latin, French, and English, extending de Bry’s fame and his view of the New World.
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