Metacomet This eighteenth-century engraving illustrates the artist’s image of Metacomet, the native leader of what colonists recalled as King Philip’s War. The engraving depicts Metacomet’s Indian style of dress, a sharp contrast to colonists’ clothing. Yet the clothing is made of textiles obtained in trade with colonists, indicating the partial adoption of colonial goods. Metacomet’s musket and powder horns emphasize the danger Metacomet and other Indians posed to the colonists by making effective use of the colonists’ own weaponry.

Library of Congress, 3b42346.