Hispani Indos domicilia in arboribus habentes oppugnant. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Hispani Indos domicilia in arboribus habentes oppugnant.
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Colombia; Spaniards; Colonists; Tree houses; Indigenous weapons – South America; Bow and arrow; Spears; Firearms; Axes
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Atrato River (Colombia); Colombia; South America; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire
Description: A group of Spaniards attack several Indigenous people in a tree in the Atrato river region of present-day Colombia. The Indigenous people of the region built homes in the treetops because the land around the river was quite swampy. The Indigenous people throw rocks and spears, fire arrows, and pour water onto the attackers on the ground below them, while the Spanish soldiers fire muskets up at them. Two Spaniards hold a large wooden board over the head of a third man, to protect him while he attempts to chop down the tree with a hatchet.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver);Theodor de Bry (Printer); Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Theodor de Bry (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23829
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 – Colombia; Spaniards; Colonists; Tree houses; Indigenous weapons – South America; Bow and arrow; Spears; Firearms; Axes

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