[Tupinambá people cook a human body in a large pot] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Tupinambá people cook a human body in a large pot]
Subject: Tupi; Tupinamba; Cannibalism; Indigenous peoples – Food – South America; Indigenous cooking; Indigenous peoples of South America - Brazil
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Marburg (Germany); Germany; Holy Roman Empire
Description: A group of Tupinambá people tend to a large pot on a fire in which they cook a human body. Two people lift a human skull out of the pot. Two children sit on the ground near the fire, and a bearded man observes the pot. Another man carries extra logs to the fire. In the background two people sit and share a cannibalistic meal – a skull sits on the ground between them.
Image Creator: Hans Staden (Artist); Unknown (Woodcutter); Andres Kolben (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:22961
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_22961_OBJ.png