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Florida, Natives. Theodore de Bry, [How the Widows Petition Their Chief] Was die Weiber / Deren Manner im Krieg Umbfommen / vor Anspruch an den Konig Haben / oder von ihm Fordern, from Grands Voyages, Part II, 1591 (published). Hand Color. This dramatic engraving is Plate XVIII from Part II of de Bry's Grands Voyages, which details the French adventures in Florida between 1562-65. It depicts the chief surrounded by the widows of the men who had fallen in battle or by disease. Squatting on their heels and hiding their faces in their hands, they beg him to avenge the deaths of their husbands, to provide for them during their widowhood, and to be granted permission to remarry after their period of mourning. French explorers and Indigenous men look upon the scene from a distance. From the first German edition, published in 1591. On a sheet of German text measuring 9.2 x 12.6".