Friday, 5 February 2010

Trustees of Georgia

Image details here
From the wiki caption
An eighteenth-century oil painting owned by the Winterthur Museum claims to depict "James Oglethorpe presenting the Yamacraw Indians to the Georgia Trustees" on July 3, 1734, one year after Oglethorpe landed to start the new colony.
Creek (Muscogee) wiki entry

Indians in the Trustees of Georgia painting - a paper

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