[A Tupinambá community] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A Tupinambá community]
Subject: Indigenous peoples of South America - Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Village communities
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Germany; Holy Roman Empire; Brazil; South America; Marburg (Germany)
Description: A small Tupinambá Indigenous village is shown. There is a fence around the perimeter, with four long structures inside. In the lower right corner, there are three long poles with skulls mounted on top of them. In the center of the village there is a group of Indigenous men, women and children. A bearded man sits on the ground on the right and is tended to by one of the Indigenous women.
Image Creator: Hans Staden (Artist); Unknown (Woodcutter); Andres Kolben (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:22919
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_22919_OBJ.png