[Tupinambá women and children share a meal] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Tupinambá women and children share a meal]
Subject: Tupinamba; Cannibalism; Indigenous peoples – Food – South America; Indigenous peoples of South America - Brazil; Tupi
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: South America; Marburg (Germany); Germany; Holy Roman Empire; Brazil
Description: A group of Tupinambá women and children sit on the ground in a circle sharing food. In the middle of the circle there are two large dishes on the ground, one of which appears to hold human innards. The women and children fill individual bowls from the large dishes to eat from.
Image Creator: Hans Staden (Artist); Unknown (Woodcutter); Andres Kolben (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:22960
Language: ger
Source Name: Warhaftige Historia vnd beschreibung eyner Landtschafft der Wilden, Nacketen, Grimmigen Menschfresser Leuthen, in der Newenwelt America gelegen, vor vnd nach Christi geburt im Land zu Hessen vnbekant, biß vff dise ij. nechst vergangene jar, Da sie Hans Staden von Homberg auß Hessen durch sein eygne erfarung erkant, vnd jetzo durch den truck an tag gibt.
Parent Collection: 1557 Marburg
Image: mta_22960_OBJ.png