Questions

1. What is your first impression of this picture? How old does “Matoaka, alias Rebecca,” look? Pocahontas is said to have been twenty-one, or twenty-two at the oldest, when she died. Considering that this is the only contemporaraneous portrait of her, how accurate is it likely to be?

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   Questions: - What is your first impression of this picture? How old does “Matoaka, alias Rebecca,” look? Pocahontas is said to have been twenty-one, or twenty-two at the oldest, when she died. Considering that this is the only contemporaraneous portrait of her, how accurate is it likely to be?
2. Look carefully at the details: the face, the clothing, the eyes, and the hand. What do you find striking or surprising?

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   Questions: - Look carefully at the details: the face, the clothing, the eyes, and the hand. What do you find striking or surprising?
3. How did the Virginia Company wish Pocahontas to be regarded? Why would they want her to be seen as depicted here?

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   Questions: - How did the Virginia Company wish Pocahontas to be regarded? Why would they want her to be seen as depicted here?