Imperterritus quidam Pizarri miles, Cretensis natione, per medium Indorum agmen transit. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Imperterritus quidam Pizarri miles, Cretensis natione, per medium Indorum agmen transit.
Subject: Indigenous peoples- Ecuador; Spaniards; Colonists; Sailing ships; Swords; Spears; Bow and arrow; Idols and images - South America
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Ecuador; South America; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire
Description: A large group of Indigenous people greets a ship of Spanish explorers in Ecuador. Several Spaniards come ashore in a rowboat. Two Spanish men have already reached land, both wielding swords, and one stands near the shore while the other has pushed through the group of Indigenous people and is confronted by an Indigenous man wearing a cape. Many of the Indigenous people are armed with bows and quivers of arrows or spears. Several Indigenous men at the front of group gesture towards the ship. In the background there is a hut with an Indigenous idol or statue inside.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver);Theodor de Bry (Printer); Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Theodor de Bry (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23816
Language: lat
Source Name: Americae pars sexta. Sive Historiæ ab Hieronymo Be[n]zono Mediolane[n]se scriptæ, sectio tertia, res no[n] minus nobiles & admiratione plenas continens, quàm præcedentes duæ. In hacenim reperies, qua ratione Hispani opule[n]tisimas illas Peruani regni provincias occuparint, capto Rege Atabaliba: deinde orta inter ipsos Hispanos in eo regno civilia bella.
Parent Collection: 1596 Bry; 1596 Bry
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Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Indigenous peoples- Ecuador; Spaniards; Colonists; Sailing ships; Swords; Spears; Bow and arrow; Idols and images - South America

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