Indiani della Spagnuola per non seruire à i Cristiani, si andauano à impiccare alli boschi. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Indiani della Spagnuola per non seruire à i Cristiani, si andauano à impiccare alli boschi.
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Hispaniola; Suicide; Colonization; Indigenous peoples – Treatment of; Colonists; Spaniards; Indigenous peoples – West Indies
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Haiti; Dominican Republic; West Indies; North America; Venice; Republic of Venice; Italy; Hispaniola; Antilles, Greater
Description: A group of Indigenous people on the island of Hispaniola (today Haiti and the Dominican Republic) commit suicide using various methods, to avoid serving the Christian Spaniards who colonized the island. One individual has hung themself by the neck from a tree; another leans into a spear that has been planted point-up into the ground; a mother uses a club to beat her two children to death; another person jumps from a cliff. There is another mother with her deceased child in the background, and behind them is a single dwelling. This image is identical to one found on page 52 of Venice, 1565.
Image Creator: Unknown (Woodcutter); Heirs of Giovanni Maria Bonelli (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:23682
Language: ita
Source Name: La Historia del Mondo Nuovo
Parent Collection: 1572 Benzoni
Image: mta_23682_OBJ.png