[Tupinambá women prepare a captive man to be executed] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Tupinambá women prepare a captive man to be executed]
Subject: Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous peoples – South America – Social life and customs; Indigenous peoples – South America – Rites and ceremonies; Indigenous weapons – South America
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire
Description: A group of Tupinambá women prepare for the ceremonial execution of a captive man. In the foreground, a woman kneels on the ground and paints or carves the end of a club while other women dance around her. In the background, another group of women dances around the captive man. He sits on the ground on a raised mound while a woman paints his head. He is restrained by a rope around his neck. Several of the women carry small children in baskets or slings tied to their backs.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver);Hans Staden (Artist);Johann Wechel (Printer); Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Hans Staden (Artist); Johann Wechel (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23268
Language: lat
Source Name: Americæ tertia pars Memorabile provinciæ Brasiliæ Historiam continēs, germanico primium sermone scriptum à Ioāne Stadio Hombergensi Hesso, nunc autem latinitate donatam à Teucrio Annaeo Priuato Colchanthe PO: & Med: Addita est Narratio profectionis Ioannis Lerij in eamdem Provinciam, quā ille initio gallicè conscripsit, postea verò Latinam fecit. His accessit Descriptio Morum & Ferocitatis incolarum illius Regionis, atque Colloquium ipsorum iodiomate consciptum.
Parent Collection: 1592 Wechel; 1592 Wechel
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Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous peoples – South America – Social life and customs; Indigenous peoples – South America – Rites and ceremonies; Indigenous weapons – South America

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