[Tupinambá people attack a European settlement and rowboats] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Tupinambá people attack a European settlement and rowboats]
Subject: Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous peoples – Warfare - South America; Colonists; Cannons; Bow and arrow; Fortification - Brazil; Coast defenses; Cannibalism; Coastal settlements; Firearms; Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire; Cape St. Augustine
Description: The European settlement under attack is comprised of several long structures and cannons surrounded by a fence and a group of European men stands at the center aiming guns and firing cannons out towards the Tupinambá. The Tupinambá surround the village and aim bows and arrows over the fence towards the European men. On either side of the European settlement there is a Tupinambá camp, each featuring a large fire with a wooden frame placed over it at the center and several hammocks, all surrounded by thick poles arranged in a circle. Fish and human limbs have been set on the wooden frames over the fires to cook. Two rowboats full of European men are making their way up the channel towards the settlement, with the Tupinambá trying to prevent them from reaching their destination by firing arrows and felling trees to block passage. Several of the Tupinambá wear feathered headdresses and adornments around their waists.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Hans Staden (Artist); Theodor de Bry (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23278
Language: ger
Source Name: Dritte Buch Americæ, Darinn Brasilia durch Johann Staden von Homberg auß Hessen, auß eigener erfahrung in Teutsch beschrieben. Item Historia der Schiffart Ioannis Lerij in Brasilien, welche er selbst publiciert hat, jetzt von newem verteutscht, Durch Teucrium Annæum Priuatum, C. Vom Wilden vnerhörten wesen der Innwoner, von allerley frembden Gethieren und Gewächsen, sampt einem Colloquio, in der Wilden Sprach.
Parent Collection: 1593 Bry
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