[How the Indigenous Brazilian warrior women treat captives] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [How the Indigenous Brazilian warrior women treat captives]
Subject: Amazons; Indigenous peoples – Warfare – South America; Bow and arrow; Torture; Indigenous peoples – Brazil
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Rio de Janeiro; Brazil; South America; Paris; France; Fort Coligny
Description: Two men have been captured by the Indigenous Brazilian warrior women, a group which the author calls ‘Amazons’. The men have been hung upside down by one ankle from a tree, and a fire has been lit beneath them. The women shoot arrows at the hanging men.
Image Creator: Unknown (Woodcutter);Heirs of Maurice de la Porte (Printer); Unknown (Woodcutter); Heirs of Maurice de la Porte (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:23396
Language: fre
Source Name: Les Singvlaritez de la France Antarctique, autremment nommée Amerique: & de plusieurs Terres & Isles decouuertes de nostre temps
Parent Collection: 1557 Paris; 1557 Paris
Image: mta_23396_OBJ.png
Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Amazons; Indigenous peoples – Warfare – South America; Bow and arrow; Torture; Indigenous peoples – Brazil