Pocahontas was born about 1594 as Matoka, in the village of Werowocomoco, located on the north shore of the Pamunkey River (now called the York River) in Virginia.

Her father was; Chief Powhatan who became Chief of the 32 tribe Powhatan’s in 1570. The Powhatan Confederacy were a well organized, thriving agricultural and fishing nation with a total population in the neighborhood of about 9,000 at the time Matoaka was born.

Matoaka visited the Jamestowne settlement when she was around 10 or 12, and was known as Pocahontas. Being derived from the Algonkin adjective meaning “playful one, sportive, frolicsome, mischievous, frisky” so is appears that was Matoaka’s nickname.

She met John Rolfe who fell in love, and asked permission to marry her.

John Rolfe was the first gentlemen to plant tobacco in Virginia and was well respected among the colonist. Pocahontas Christian name was; Rebbeca and she was married to John Rolfe in the Anglican Church in Jamestown on 5 April 1614.

Pocahontas, now Rebbeca Rolfe gave birth to a son; Thomas Rolfe in 1615.

Then early in 1616, Governor Daile along with John Rolfe and his family departed for England. Matachanna and her husband Tomocomo ( who was Powhatan’s priest-counselor), along with several other young Powhatan men and women went along.

Upon their arrival in England, Pocahontas and her husband were well received by the Royal court and had an audience with the King and Queen who presented her with the agate cameo brooch which is believed to have been carved with her likeness.

Pocahontas (Rebbeca) fell gravely ill aboard ship in preparation for the return trip back home to Virginia and died on 21 March 1616. Her funeral was at Saint Georges Parish Church, in Gravesend, England.

Pocahontas traveled to England in 1616 with her husband John Rolfe and their young son Thomas. Rolfe family legends say this blue onyx cameo brooch was carved with a likeness of Pocahontas and given to her during her stay in London.

The cameo was donated to the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation in 1979 by the Reverend Cary Weisiger III, a direct descendant of Pocahontas.

I was asked to carve a replica of this cameo brooch In April, 2007. This was presented as a gift to Queen Elizabeth II on May 3rd during her visit to Virginia.

The images of your jewelry have to be organized so you can quickly access the exact image you want. After a few years you can easily end up with thousands of photographs, especially if you take 5 bracketed shots of each piece.

Set up four folders, name them, Master Raw, Edited Masters, Print images, Web images, and organize each by date created. This way you will always have your newest images in view first.

Here are the 6 versions of each image.
1. Master file – Unaltered Raw image from the camera or scanner. – Back up a copy to disc.
2. Edited Masters – corrected in Photoshop or it’s equivalent saved as a 600dpi Psd or tiff file. – Back up a copy to disc.
3. Magazine Print file – Large, optimized for print in CMYK format if possible, saved as a 600 dpi tiff file.
4. Home Print file – Medium size, optimized for print in CMYK format if possible, saved as a 200 dpi tiff or Psd file.
5. Web - Large size 300 - 400 pixels tall, 72 dpi in RGB jpeg format.
6. Web – Thumbnails 70 – 150 pixels tall, 72 dpi in RGB jpeg format.

Notes on editing.
There are different needs for your image based on intended usage.
Print –
Do not crop the image too closely as magazine editors are looking for well composed photos that will look good in print.

Web – Large images
Crop more closely to the subject as we are looking to keep the file size of the image lower to enable fast downloads. Keep to the same height for each image for a consistent look and feel.

Web – Thumbnails
Create drama, by very close crop or selecting a detail area from the original. Small in size and keep all of your thumbnails at the same height to create a consistent look and feel on your site.

Create your smaller images for the web by copying from your Edited Master files. Never resize an existing jpeg file as the picture quality will deteriorate.

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