[Three European ships engage in a naval battle near the coast, where there is a Tupinambá village] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Three European ships engage in a naval battle near the coast, where there is a Tupinambá village]
Subject: Tupinamba; Naval battles; Sailing ships; Bow and arrow; Colonists; Cannons; Coastal settlements; Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil; Tupi
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire; Brazil; South America
Description: Two Spanish ships and one French (as determined by their flags) are shown, with the French firing cannons at the Spanish ship and vice versa. Several men are in the water, either deceased or having merely fallen, along with turtles and other sea creatures. There is a Tupinambá village on land near the shore, comprised of several long structures surrounded by two layers of tall fence. Several Tupinambá people rove along the shore carrying bows and arrows. In the background near the tree line of a forest, one individual hunts using a bow and arrows.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Hans Staden (Artist); Johann Wechel (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23241
Language: lat
Source Name: Americæ tertia pars Memorabile provinciæ Brasiliæ Historiam continēs, germanico primium sermone scriptum à Ioāne Stadio Hombergensi Hesso, nunc autem latinitate donatam à Teucrio Annaeo Priuato Colchanthe PO: & Med: Addita est Narratio profectionis Ioannis Lerij in eamdem Provinciam, quā ille initio gallicè conscripsit, postea verò Latinam fecit. His accessit Descriptio Morum & Ferocitatis incolarum illius Regionis, atque Colloquium ipsorum iodiomate consciptum.
Parent Collection: 1592 Wechel
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