[Tupinambá people roast limbs over fires] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Tupinambá people roast limbs over fires]
Subject: Cannibalism; Village communities; Roasting (Cooking); Indigenous peoples of South America - Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Marburg (Germany); Germany; Holy Roman Empire; Brazil; South America
Description: A group of Indigenous Tupinambá people are shown dismembering bodies and roasting body parts over several fires. There are three wooden frames set over three fires where human limbs are roasting. One Indigenous person sits in a hammock while others stand around them. In the center of the image a man is kneeling, with an Indigenous person on either side of him holding his arms. Another Indigenous person stands over the kneeling man holding a club-like weapon raised over his head. Below this group another Indigenous man holds a headless torso. A bearded man (likely representing Staden) gestures broadly in the lower middle part of the image.
Image Creator: Hans Staden (Artist); Unknown (Woodcutter); Andres Kolben (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:22932
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
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