Come gl’Indiani viuono sopra gli Arbori. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Come gl’Indiani viuono sopra gli Arbori.
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Central America; Indigenous peoples - South America; Tree houses; Colonists; Self-defence; Axes
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Venezuela; Colombia; Panama; South America; Central America; Venice; Republic of Venice; Italy
Description: A wooden treehouse with a thatched roof built by Indigenous people sits high in a tree. Two Spanish colonists use axes to chop down the tree while another watches from the side with a shield held over his head. In the treehouse, two Indigenous inhabitants drop rocks and pots of boiling water onto the Spaniards and at least one has found their mark - a Spanish man lays immobile on the ground to the right. This image is identical to one found on page 160 of Venice, 1565.
Image Creator: Unknown (Woodcutter); Heirs of Giovanni Maria Bonelli (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:23690
Language: ita
Source Name: La Historia del Mondo Nuovo
Parent Collection: 1572 Benzoni
Image: mta_23690_OBJ.png