[A group of Tupinambá people take a man captive] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A group of Tupinambá people take a man captive]
Subject: Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous men – South America; Indigenous weapons – South America; Indigenous peoples – Warfare – South America; Executions and executioners; Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Geneva; Republic of Geneva; Old Swiss Confederacy; Holy Roman Empire; Switzerland; Rio de Janeiro
Description: A group of Indigenous Tupinambá people is shown preparing to execute a captive man. The captive man is restrained by a rope tied around his waist, with two men holding either end of the rope, and his hand is raised in a gesture of protest against his impending death. Another man swings a club above the head of the captive. To the left a man lays on the ground with a woman kneeling next to him. To the right, a man stands holding a bow with one hand and gesturing with the other. A crowd of Indigenous people holding bows stands in the background.
Image Creator: Jean de Léry (Artist); Unknown (Woodcutter); Eustathius Vignon (Eustache Vignon) (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:22883
Language: lat
Source Name: Historia Navigationis in Brasiliam, qvae et America dicitvr. Qva describitvr avtoris nauigatio, quaéque in mari vidit memoriæ prodenda: Villagagnonis in America gesta: Brasiliensium victus & moris, à nostris admodum alieni, cum eorum linguæ dialogo: animalia etiam, arbores atque herbæ, reliquáque singularia & nobis penitùs incognita.
Parent Collection: 1586 Geneva
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