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Tomb of American Indian chiefs in a narrow room with arched roof, made from plant materials, their bodies laid out beside each other on a platform under a canopy; a figure crouching next to a fire in foreground at right; animal skins behind; proof illustration to William Strachey's 'The History of Travaile into Virginia Britannia', edited by Richard Henry Major (London: 1849); after Theodor de Bry. Etching on chine collé
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