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Title
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[A man is killed, dismembered, and cooked by the Tupinambá]
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Description
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This image tells the story of a man’s death, dismemberment, and eventual cannibalization by the Tupinambá group. In the background of the image, the man lays in a hammock and is awoken by several Tupinambá people. On the left, the man kneels on the ground with two Tupinambá men at his sides holding each of his arms, while a third man standing in front of him holds a club above his head poised to fall. In the foreground, the man’s body is dismembered. Each of his limbs and his head have been removed, one arm lays on the ground and a child washes the head in a nearby pool of water. A bearded European man stands beside the men doing the dismembering and gestures towards them, perhaps in protest. In the center of the image, the man’s limbs lay on a wooden rack over a fire to grill while a woman watches.
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Image Creator
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Theodor de Bry (Engraver);Hans Staden (Artist);Johann Wechel (Printer)
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Theodor de Bry (Engraver)
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Hans Staden (Artist)
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Johann Wechel (Printer)
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Identifier
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mta:23261
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Source Name
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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.
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Image
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Subject
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Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil
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Tupi
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Tupinamba
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Hammocks
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Indigenous cooking
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Cannibalism
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Executions and executioners
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