[Inside a Tupinambá village a European man are held captive] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Inside a Tupinambá village a European man are held captive]
Subject: Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous women – South America; Colonists; Village communities
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire
Description: A European man is held captive inside a Tupinambá village, which is comprised of five long structures arranged in a pentagon and surrounded by a fence. The village is labelled ‘Uwattibi’. The man is shown having his hair cut by a Tupinambá woman in the left, and then on the right he is shown standing in a group of women with a rope tied around his neck. Several Tupinambá women hold both ends of the rope and dance around the man. There are two children present as well, and a monkey and parrot sit on top of one of the buildings on the left.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Hans Staden (Artist); Theodor de Bry (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23285
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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