[A group of Tupinambá people take a European man captive] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A group of Tupinambá people take a European man captive]
Subject: Tupinamba; Dugout canoes; Colonists; Coastal settlements; Fortification - Brazil; Bow and arrow; Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil; Tupi
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire; Bertioga; São Paulo
Description: This image shows the capture of a European man on the island of S. Maro. First, he is surrounded by the Tupinambá, who aim their bows towards him, in the group towards the far side of the island. Then he is shown having been captured and stripped of his clothes, with the Tupinambá holding him by both arms, in the group on the island nearer to the viewer. The canoes of the Tupinambá have been been pulled up to the shoreline of the island, with several people remaining in the canoes. Many of the Tupinamba wear feathered headdresses and adornments around their waists. Most carry a bow and arrow, although some have a spear or a club instead. There is a triangular fortification on the left side of the island with cannons at each point, and another walled fort with cannons on the mainland labelled ‘Brikioka’.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Hans Staden (Artist); Johann Wechel (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23249
Language: lat
Source Name: Americæ tertia pars Memorabile provinciæ Brasiliæ Historiam continēs, germanico primium sermone scriptum à Ioāne Stadio Hombergensi Hesso, nunc autem latinitate donatam à Teucrio Annaeo Priuato Colchanthe PO: & Med: Addita est Narratio profectionis Ioannis Lerij in eamdem Provinciam, quā ille initio gallicè conscripsit, postea verò Latinam fecit. His accessit Descriptio Morum & Ferocitatis incolarum illius Regionis, atque Colloquium ipsorum iodiomate consciptum.
Parent Collection: 1592 Wechel
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