[European ships anchored along the coast near an abandoned Tupinambá village and the island Santa Catarina] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [European ships anchored along the coast near an abandoned Tupinambá village and the island Santa Catarina]
Subject: Tupinamba; Sailing ships; Dugout canoes; Colonists; Bonfires; Coastal settlements; Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil; Tupi
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: South America; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire; Santa Catarina Island; Brazil
Description: Two European ships are anchored near the coast, close to an island labelled ‘S. Catherina Ins.’ Several European men sit around a fire on the island, while others chop down a tree and gather brush. A canoe bearing several Tupinamá men and one European approaches the island from the left and five other canoes come from the right, with the five heading towards a rowboat filled with European men. On land several European men with spears explore an abandoned Tupinambá village near the shore. The frames of several of the structures are exposed and parts of the fence are broken. A large cross with a plaque hanging around it has been erected on the cape near the village and two European men stand beside it.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Hans Staden (Artist); Johann Wechel (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23246
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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