Pocahontas, a reproduction of the bronze statue of her in Jamestown Virginia by American sculptor William Partridge. A generous gift to the British people presented by the Governor of Virginia back in 1958 at her burial grounds at St. George's Church Gravesend, Kent, England, dedicated as a memorial to the Native American Princess.
Pocahontas, is associated with peace making between the English and Native Americans. When in 1607 Captain John Smith founder of Jamestown, was captured on tribal territory, he was taken to the chief Powhaan at Werowocomoco, the main village of the Powhatan Confederacy, and sentence to death. Pocahontas aged around twelve years old, who in Smith's recounting of the incident , threw herself across his body: "at the minute of my execution, she hazarded the beating out of her own brains to save mine; and not only that, but so prevailed with her father, that I was safely conducted to Jamestown" in a letter to Queen Anne of Great Britain. Also, Pocahontas with members of her tribe also brought supplies to Captain John Smith's starving settlers
Date: 30/05/2013
Location: St George's Church, Gravesham, Kent, UK
Photographer: photo: richard keith wolff
