Indianer da sie wolten probieren ob die Spanier unsterbliche Leuth weren, erseuffen sie einen Spanier Salsedum genandt im Meer. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Indianer da sie wolten probieren ob die Spanier unsterbliche Leuth weren, erseuffen sie einen Spanier Salsedum genandt im Meer.
Subject: Taíno; Colonists; Spaniards; Spirituality – Indigenous – West Indies; Drowning; Indigenous peoples – Puerto Rico
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: San Juan; Puerto Rico; United States of America; Antilles, Greater; West Indies; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire; Boriquén
Description: A group of Indigenous men stand knee-deep in a river. One of the men carries a Spanish man over his shoulders and throws him into the water. Another of the men holds the musket and helmet of the Spaniard. On the far bank, four Indigenous men are now gathered around the Spanish man who lies on the ground, deceased. In the background there are two structures. The group of Indigenous men stands in front of them, gesturing at the deceased Spanish man who lies on the ground at their feet.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Johann Feyerabend (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23699
Language: ger
Source Name: Das vierdte Buch Von den neuwen Welt. oder Neuwe und gründtliche Historien, von dem Nidergängischen Indien, so von Christophoro Colombo im Jar 1492 erstlich erfunden
Parent Collection: 1594 Feyerabend
Image: mta_23699_OBJ.png