Trophaeum & solennes ritus devictis hostibus. XVI. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Trophaeum & solennes ritus devictis hostibus. XVI.
Subject: Florida-History-Huguenot colony, 1562-1565; Indigenous peoples – Warfare – North America; Indigenous peoples – North America – Rites and ceremonies; Indigenous peoples – Florida; Timucua
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: North America; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire; Florida; United States of America
Description: A group of Indigenous people sit on the ground in a semi-circle. A man dances in the middle of the group. In the background, the body parts of the defeated enemies have been mounted on poles that have been stuck into the ground as trophies. In the foreground an Indigenous man stands with a few colonists.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (Artist); Johann Wechel (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate Engraving
Identifier: mta:20325
Language: lat
Source Name: Brevis narratio eorum quae in Florida Americae provicia gallis acciderunt, secunda in illam navigatione, duce Renato de Laudoniere classis praefecto. Anno M D LXIIII. Quae est secunda pars Americae. Additae figurae & incolarum eicones ibidem ad vivu expressae, brevis item Declaratio Religionis, rituum, vivendique ratione ipsorum
Parent Collection: 1591 Latin
Image: mta_20325_OBJ.png