[Combat between European and Indigenous men on an island and Indigenous people in canoes] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Combat between European and Indigenous men on an island and Indigenous people in canoes]
Subject: Tupinamba; Dugout canoes; Coastal settlements; Colonists; Fortification - Brazil; Bow and arrow; Firearms; Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil; Tupi
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire; Bertioga; São Paulo
Description: A mixed group of Indigenous people and Europeans stand on an island labelled ‘S. Maro’ and a group of Indigenous people in canoes are arranged along the shore facing the group on the island. The two groups are engaged in conflict, with the Europeans firing guns and the Indigenous people shooting arrows. At least two Indigenous people in one canoe (second from left) and one person in another (far right) have been killed or wounded. There appears to be a European captive in the prow of the canoe in the middle – the man is nude and has a rope tied around his neck, and he fires a gun at the group on the island. There are two fortifications on the island, as well as one on the mainland labelled ‘Brikioka’, from which several cannons are firing.
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:23250
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: Tupinamba; Dugout canoes; Coastal settlements; Colonists; Fortification - Brazil; Bow and arrow; Firearms; Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil; Tupi

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