Wie der Indianer Brucken seyen von Seilen zusammen geflochten, und vom Farth Guaynacapæ. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Wie der Indianer Brucken seyen von Seilen zusammen geflochten, und vom Farth Guaynacapæ.
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Peru; South America; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire
Description: A group of Indigenous people braided ropes together to make a bridge across a river, in order to confront a rival group. However, as they were crossing, warriors on the other side of the river cut the ropes that anchored the bridge to the riverbank with a hatchet, sending the men crossing the bridge into the water. Several warriors are being carried downstream by the river current along with their weapons, although one man has managed to climb out of the water. Men in both armies are armed with bows, spears, and shields. This image is identical to one found on page 25 (159) of Frankfurt, 1596.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver);Johann Feyerabend (Printer); Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Johann Feyerabend (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23856
Language: ger
Source Name: Das sechste Theil der neuwen Welt. oder Der Historien Hieron. Benzo von Meylandt, Das Dritte Buch. Darinnen warhafftig erzehlet wird, wie die Spanier die Goldreiche Landschafften deß Peruanischen Königreichs eyngenommen, den König Atabalibam gefangen und getödtet. Auch wie sie, entlich sich selbst untereinander auffgerieben haben.
Parent Collection: 1597 Frankfurt; 1597 Frankfurt
Image: mta_23856_OBJ.png
Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Peru; Indigenous warriors; Bridges; Rivers; Bow and arrow; Spears; Shields; Armies; Drowning

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