MEDIA
Pamunkey Frontlet
Original Author: Katherine Wetzel, photographer
Created: ca. 1677
Medium: Medal
Publisher: Preservation Virginia

Pamunkey Frontlet

A roughly six-by-four-inch engraved medal known as a frontlet bears the coat of arms of the British royal family. King Charles II commissioned this frontlet as a gift to Cockacoeske, the Queen of the Pamunkey, after the signing of the Treaty of Middle Plantation in 1677.