[A captive man is executed by the Tupinambá] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A captive man is executed by the Tupinambá]
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire
Description: A group of Tupinambá people are ceremonially executing a male captive. The man is restrained by a rope tied around his waist, with each end of the rope held by one of the Tupinambá. A Tupinambá man in front of the captive holds a decorative club above his head, poised to swing. Most of the men in the group wear necklaces and feathered headdresses and adornments tied around their waists, and some hold bows and shields. The women also wear necklaces. A fire burns in front of the captive man.
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:23269
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 – Rites and ceremonies; Indigenous weapons – South America; Executions and executioners; Featherwork

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