[Indigenous group attacks a European settlement] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Indigenous group attacks a European settlement]
Subject: Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous peoples – Warfare – South America; Coastal settlements; Colonists; Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Antwerp; Belgium; Spanish Netherlands; Cape St. Augustine
Description: A group of Indigenous people attacks a fenced European settlement near the coast. In the center of the image, several Indigenous people fire arrows towards a fenced European fort, while four cannons fire at the Indigenous people from within the fence. There are several structures within the fence in addition to the four cannons, with two more fenced areas to the left and right. A line of Indigenous people holding spears cross a river towards the fort by walking over two logs laid across the river. There is a large settlement closer to the coast on the left with a large ship in the water nearby, and another smaller settlement on a small island at the mouth of the river. The three settlements are labelled Garast, Tamerea and Mamn (clockwise from center bottom).
Image Creator: Hans Staden (Artist); Unknown (Woodcutter); Christophe Plantin (Christoffel Plantijn) (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:22966
Language: dut
Source Name: Warachtige historie ende beschrrivinge eens lants in America ghelegen, vviens invvoonders vvilt, naeckt, seer godloos, ende vvreede menschen eters sijn
Parent Collection: 1558 Antwerp
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