[Tupinambá people fish with bow and arrow] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Tupinambá people fish with bow and arrow]
Subject: Tupinamba; Hammocks; Indigenous peoples of South America - Brazil; Tupi
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: South America; Marburg (Germany); Germany; Holy Roman Empire; Brazil
Description: A group of Tupinambá people is shown fishing. Two of them use a bow and arrows to shoot the fish in the water while others swim and dive, catching the fish with their hands. One of the individuals with a bow and arrow has several fish attached to a line that he wears tied around his neck and hanging down his back.
Image Creator: Hans Staden (Artist); Unknown (Woodcutter); Andres Kolben (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:22950
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_22950_OBJ.png