John White's Depiction of Virginia Indians (Native Americans) Dancing, 1590

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This image was painted in 1590 by British explore John White on the de Bry voyages to the New World. Not only are the indians depicted as white, but their movement replicates Rennaissance philosophical concepts of the Great Chain of Being (See http://www.stanford.edu/class/engl174b/chain.html for more on this cosmological concept)