[A European ship sails along the coast of Brazil near an Indigenous village] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A European ship sails along the coast of Brazil near an Indigenous village]
Subject: Tupinamba; Village communities; Sailing ships; Bow and arrow; Coasts – South America; Colonists; Indigenous peoples of South America - Brazil; Tupi
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: South America; Marburg (Germany); Germany; Holy Roman Empire; Brazil
Description: A French ship (identifiable by the fleur de lis on the flag) sails near the coast. A European man (likely representing Staden) is in the water near the ship and appears to be pleading with the men on the ship. Along the shore several Indigenous women pick up objects (possibly shells or rocks) from the ground. The village is comprised of three long structures surrounded by a fence. A group of Indigenous people holding bows stands on the right.
Image Creator: Hans Staden (Artist); Unknown (Woodcutter); Andres Kolben (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:22933
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_22933_OBJ.png