[A European man is held hostage in a Tupinambá village] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A European man is held hostage in a Tupinambá village]
Subject: Village communities; Captivity; Indigenous peoples of South America - Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Marburg (Germany); Germany; Holy Roman Empire; Brazil; South America
Description: A small Tupinambá Indigenous village is shown. There is a fence around the village, and four long structures. At the center of the village a man stands, his legs are tied together. Facing him is an Indigenous man wearing a feathered headdress and a large feathered garment on his backside. The Indigenous man is pointing at the captive man. Several other Indigenous people in the village gaze towards the captive man. Beside a gap in the fence in the lower left of the fence there are three long poles with skulls mounted on top of them.
Image Creator: Hans Staden (Artist); Unknown (Woodcutter); Andres Kolben (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:22921
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_22921_OBJ.png