The Village of Secoton - c.1585 by John White Detail (bottom right) shows seventeen Indians, of whom seven are woman, dancing around seven posts, the tops of which are carved in the form of human heads. The place of the dance was probably Secoton. John White (c.1540 - c.1618) "Gentleman of London" and probable doctor, was sent by Sir Richard Grenville as Sir Walter Raleigh's surveyor-general on his first voyage to the New World (1585-6). During this journey he made numerous sketches of the landscape and people they encountered (including the one at right). These works are significant as they pre-date the first body of "discovery voyage art" created in the late eighteenth century by the artists who sailed with Captain James Cook. ㏕opFoto