[A bustling Tupinambá village] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A bustling Tupinambá village]
Subject: Tupinamba; Village communities; Dugout canoes; Bow and arrow; Cannibalism; Hammocks; Indigenous cooking; Indigenous peoples of South America - Brazil; Tupi
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: South America; Marburg (Germany); Germany; Holy Roman Empire; Brazil
Description: A Tupinambá village is shown. Four canoes are anchored along the shore and a group of Indigenous people, some holding bows, moves towards the canoes. One person on the left kneels on the ground to light a fire while another person observes holding a bow. Another group of individuals sits on the ground in a circle near the shore. There are two wooden frames set up over fires, one frame holds roasting fish and the other holds human limbs. There are two individuals lounging in hammocks near the fires and on the left there are three long structures.
Image Creator: Hans Staden (Artist); Unknown (Woodcutter); Andres Kolben (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:22934
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_22934_OBJ.png