[The Tupinambá prepare to dismember an executed man] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [The Tupinambá prepare to dismember an executed man]
Subject: Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous peoples – South America – Rites and ceremonies; Executions and executioners; Dismemberment
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire
Description: After the execution of a captive, the Tupinambá prepare to dismember the body. On the left a man lays on the ground with a woman, who appears distressed, supporting his head. A man stands beside them holding the ceremonial club used in the execution of the man. To the right the body has been laid out on face down and a group of women clusters around to begin the dismemberment. A pot has been set on a fire near the women. A bearded European man stands in the center watching the group.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Hans Staden (Artist); Johann Wechel (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23271
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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