[A Tupinambá group practices cannibalism] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A Tupinambá group practices cannibalism]
Subject: Tupinamba; Indigenous peoples – South America – Rites and ceremonies; Cannibalism; 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 are shown engaging in cannibalism. In the foreground a man holds a dismembered torso over a fire – a small hatchet is on the ground beside the man. To the right of the fire a woman holds a dismembered leg in the air and to the left another woman holds an arm. A group of Indigenous men and women observes the torso being held over the fire. A woman in this group holds a dismembered leg in the air, and another person holds an arm.
Image Creator: Hans Staden (Artist); Unknown (Woodcutter); Andres Kolben (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:22959
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_22959_OBJ.png