Die Indianer giessen den Spaniern zuersättigung ihres Geitzes geschmeltzt Goldt in den Mund. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Die Indianer giessen den Spaniern zuersättigung ihres Geitzes geschmeltzt Goldt in den Mund.
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Panama; Executions and executioners; Gold; Colonists; Spaniards; Village communities; Dismemberment; Cannibalism
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Panama; Central America; North America; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire
Description: A Spanish man lies on his back on the ground, bound by ropes and restrained by Indigenous men who hold his head and feet. Another Indigenous man pours melted gold into the Spaniard’s mouth, while two other Indigenous men watch. To the right, two Indigenous men dismember the body of a second Spaniard. In the background, another body lies on the ground, this one missing a leg. Nearby, several Indigenous people stand around a fire with a wooden frame set over it for roasting limbs, and one of the men begins to eat a dismembered arm. There are several dwellings in the background.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver);Johann Feyerabend (Printer); Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Johann Feyerabend (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23707
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 – Panama; Executions and executioners; Gold; Colonists; Spaniards; Village communities; Dismemberment; Cannibalism

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