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The items on this page are hand-printed shirts, bags and posters
designed by artist/historian Rose Powhatan (Pamunkey/Tauxenent).
The designs are based on Powhatan history, aesthetics and culture.

Still Here!
Celebrating 49,500 years
...before Columbus
There are many theories about the antiquity of
the Native American presence in the Americas.
Estimates vary from 12,000 to 50,000 years.
However, similar to the respect given to the
Adam and Eve story and in honor of our
traditional beliefs, origin stories told by many
Indigenous peoples of the Americas state that
the First People came from the earth (or a
cave) within this hemisphere.

The main design features an image of a
Powhatan elder statesman. Names of 637
indigenous nations of the Americas are shown.

$12 for T-shirts in sizes Medium, Large, Extra
Large. $15 for 2X, 3X, (4X, and 5X when
available).
Colors: red, blue, natural (off-white)

THE POWHATAN SHIELD
This shirt's design is based on a sacred circle or
medicine wheel. A medicine bag hangs on the left,
and a traditional bald eagle feather is on the right.
The center has Powhatan's symbol of a man
flanked by his two totems and is from "Powhatan's
Mantle". The original Powhatan's Mantle is
displayed at the Ashmoleum Museum, Oxford
University, in England. There is a replica of the
historic artifact on exhibition at the Jamestown
Settlement Festival Park, Jamestown, Virginia.
The original mantle is made from four deer skins.
Its design is sewn with 17,444 white shells.

$12 for T-shirts and tank tops in sizes

Medium, Large, Extra Large.
Colors: gray, natural, red

THE TREATY STORY
This shirt is a tribal pictograph story of the
signing of the 1677 treaty between the
Powhatan Confederacy and the English.
The purchase of the shirt includes a printed
story or "translation" of the pictographs that
explains its significance to Virginia Indian
history.

$12 Sizes: Medium, Large, Extra Large
(Translation included). Children's -$10

Colors: red, blue, gray

Michabo the Hare Story
A traditional Algonquian tale of how Michabo
the Great Hare survived the Great Flood and
how men and women were first born. Michabo
was also a hero among the Powhatan people.
The only one of his stories told to John Smith
was that of how the Great Hare populated the
world with people he kept in a big sack.
The purchase of the shirt includes a copy of
the myth that inspired it.

$12 for T-shirts and tank tops in sizes
Medium, Large, Extra Large. $15 for 2X, 3X,
(4X, and 5X when available). (Translation
included)

Colors: natural, white

TURTLE SHIRT
The turtle is sacred to many indigenous
Americans. She represents Turtle Mother,
the Turtle Clan , or Turtle Island (one of the
traditional names for continental North
America). A widely-held Indian myth states
that we are riding on the back of a large
turtle. Her movements cause earthquakes.
A copy of the story is included in the
purchase price.

$12 for T-shirts and tank tops in sizes
Medium, Large, Extra Large. $15 for 2X, 3X,
(4X, and 5X when available)
Colors: Red, blue, natural

Tote Bags: 19 1/2" X 14 1/2 "

(L) Powhatan's Mantle Design of a man
standing between his two totems of a deer
and a mountain lion. The 32 circles around
him represent the nations that made up the
Powhatan "Confederacy" or "Chiefdom"

(R) The Turtle Bag

$12
Colors: Natural, black, red, or blue.

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ISLAND OF WOMEN (by Taino artist Mike Auld)

The Island of Women or "Matinino" ("No
Fathers") was a fabled Taino place to which
the epic indigenous Caribbean hero
Gua-hayona (Gwah-ha-yo-nah) took the first
women. In the story he left them there and
travelled on to the Island of Gold or "Guanin".
Columbus and the Spanish who arrived in the
Caribbean in 1492 heard the story of
Guahayona that fuelled their lust for gold and
Amazons. The female images in the design are
based on the pictograph of Atabey (the virgin
mother of the Taino Indian Supreme Being,
Yucahu) etched on a slab of stone in an
ancient Puerto Rican ballpark.

$12 for T-shirts in sizes Medium, Large, Extra
Large. $15 for 2X, 3X, (4X, and 5X when
available).
Colors: natural, white