[Tupinambá people in canoes approach a European ship] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Tupinambá people in canoes approach a European ship]
Subject: Coasts – South America; Sailing ships; Dugout canoes; Fishing; Colonists; 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 Tupinambá people in four canoes approach a large European ship. Most of the Tupinambá carry a bow and arrows, although one man in a canoe alone holds a fish, and there are more fish in his canoe. There are two European men on the ship. In the background there is an Indigenous village on the shore, and an Indigenous person standing holding a bow.
Image Creator: Hans Staden (Artist); Unknown (Woodcutter); Andres Kolben (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:22928
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_22928_OBJ.png