Die Spanier reißen die Indianer in der Insel Cubagua durch eine Practick an die Frantzosen. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Die Spanier reißen die Indianer in der Insel Cubagua durch eine Practick an die Frantzosen.
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Venezuela; Indigenous weapons – Venezuela; Bow and arrow; Dugout canoes; Sailing ships; Colonists; Spaniards; Pearl industry and trade
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Cubagua; Venezuela; South America; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire
Description: A group of Indigenous people are encouraged by Spanish colonists to attack and drive away a French ship near the island of Cubagua – the pearl island of Venezuela – in order to preserve the Spanish monopoly over the pearl trade. The Indigenous people launch their attack on the French ship from dugout canoes, using bows and arrows. In the background a group of Indigenous people harvest pearl oysters near the shore using long-handled nets, supervised by more Spaniards. There is also a village near the group. Another French ship sails further along the coast.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Theodor de Bry (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23759
Language: ger
Source Name: Americæ das Fünffte Buch, Vol schöner unerhörter Historien, auß dem andern Theil Ioannis Benzonis von Meylandt gezogen: Von der Spanier Wüten, beyd wider ihre Knecht die Nigriten, und auch die arme Indianer: wie die Spanier von den Frantzösischen Meerraubern zum offtermal angriffen unnd geplündert worden, denn auch, wie sie erstlich das neuwe Spanien erfunden haben, und gantz erbärmlich mit dem armen Landvölcklein daselbst umbgangen sind.
Parent Collection: 1595 Frankfurt
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