Sigafoos1
For this first assignment, I've chosen Pocahontas as my subject on account of her amazing role as a link between two cultures, Algonquian and English. What's interesting is that when you search her, basically two images come up; the disney rendering which is so well accepted, and a 15th century depiction in which she is COMPLETELY Europeanized. Even though she was accepted by English society after marrying John Rolfe, being baptized, and re-named Rebecca, the painters of the time were set on depicting European features. In this project I plan on conveying both of her cultures, but I will not hide her ethnicity.