Etliche Indianer werden erschlagen, etliche sind durch Feuwersbrunst verdorben. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Etliche Indianer werden erschlagen, etliche sind durch Feuwersbrunst verdorben.
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Columbia; Massacres; Indigenous peoples – Treatment of; Colonists; Spaniards; Village communities; Arson; Swords; Shields; Spears; Firearms
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Colombia; South America; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire
Description: A group of Spanish soldiers attack an Indigenous village, killing the inhabitants with swords, spears, and muskets, and setting fire to the village. The Spaniards have surrounded the village and attack from all side with their assorted weapons. The Indigenous men, women and children are trapped in the village, several have already been killed and those alive have no escape. The fire, set against the fence encircling the village, is burning around the fence and has caught two of the four dwelling that make up the village.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver);Johann Feyerabend (Printer); Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Johann Feyerabend (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23706
Language: ger
Source Name: Das vierdte Buch Von den neuwen Welt. oder Neuwe und gründtliche Historien, von dem Nidergängischen Indien, so von Christophoro Colombo im Jar 1492 erstlich erfunden
Parent Collection: 1594 Feyerabend; 1594 Feyerabend
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Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Columbia; Massacres; Indigenous peoples – Treatment of; Colonists; Spaniards; Village communities; Arson; Swords; Shields; Spears; Firearms

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