Hispani Indos oneribus succumbentes crudeliter tractant. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Hispani Indos oneribus succumbentes crudeliter tractant.
Subject: Indigenous peoples- Peru; Indigenous peoples – Colombia; Spaniards; Colonists; Forced labor; Forced migration; Murder; Volcanic eruption
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Peru; Colombia; South America; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire
Description: A group of Spaniards travel through Peru with several Indigenous men who have been forced to accompany the Spaniards to carry their packs. Every Indigenous man in the group carries at least one large pack, and sometimes multiple items. The Spaniards are merciless, beating or killing any Indigenous man who tires and slows or can no longer continue. They use wooden canes to beat the men, and in the background one Indigenous man who has fallen or been knocked to the ground is killed with a sword. In the distance, a volcano erupts.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver);Theodor de Bry (Printer); Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Theodor de Bry (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23828
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
Image: mta_23828_OBJ.png
Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Indigenous peoples- Peru; Indigenous peoples – Colombia; Spaniards; Colonists; Forced labor; Forced migration; Murder; Volcanic eruption

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