Spanier sampt etlichen München werden von Indianern gemetziget. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Spanier sampt etlichen München werden von Indianern gemetziget.
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Venezuela; Indigenous peoples – Warfare – South America; Colonists; Spaniards; Monks; Revolutions; Massacres; Bow and arrow; Clubs; Firearms; Sailing ships
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Cumana; Venezuela; South America; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire
Description: In Venezuela, a group of Indigenous people kill Spanish soldiers and monks. At the center of the group, two monks have been knocked to the ground. One lays on his back with his hands in the air to ward of blows from the club that an Indigenous man holds poised above him. The other monk is on his knees with his arms spread wide, and an Indigenous man is about to shoot an arrow into his throat while another holds a club over his head. In the background, Spanish soldiers flee the attack in a rowboat, while others who have not managed to escape are killed on shore, their muskets dropped to the ground. A European ship is anchored further along the coast. Several dwellings are visible among the trees on the right.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Johann Feyerabend (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23704
Language: ger
Source Name: Das vierdte Buch Von den neuwen Welt. oder Neuwe und gründtliche Historien, von dem Nidergängischen Indien, so von Christophoro Colombo im Jar 1492 erstlich erfunden
Parent Collection: 1594 Feyerabend
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