Indi sæuitiæ Hispanorum impatientes sibijpsis manus violentas inferunt. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Indi sæuitiæ Hispanorum impatientes sibijpsis manus violentas inferunt.
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Hispaniola; Haiti; Dominican Republic; Antilles, Greater; West Indies; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire
Description: A group of Indigenous people commit suicide to escape the brutality of the Spanish colonists. Men and women hang themselves by the neck from trees, leap off a high cliff, stab themselves with spears and knives, drown themselves in the river, and ingest poison. Mothers and fathers also kill their children. This image is identical to one found on page 193 of Frankfurt, 1594, but colored.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver);Johann Feyerabend (Printer); Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Johann Feyerabend (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23733
Language: lat
Source Name: Americae pars quarta. Sive, Insignis & Admiranda Historia de reperta primùm Occidentali India à Christophoro Columbo Anno M. CCCCXCII
Parent Collection: 1594 Latin; 1594 Latin
Image: mta_23733_OBJ.png
Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Indigenous peoples – West Indies; Indigenous peoples – Hispaniola; Suicide; Indigenous peoples – Treatment of; Colonists; Spaniards; Colonization