Indorum pontes ex funibus contexti. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Indorum pontes ex funibus contexti.
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Peru; Incas; Indigenous warriors; Bridges; Rivers; Bow and arrow; Spears; Shields; Armies; Drowning
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Peru; South America; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire
Description: A group of Inca people braided ropes together to make a bridge across a river, in order to confront a rival group. However, as they were crossing, warriors on the other side of the river cut the ropes that anchored the bridge to the riverbank with a hatchet, sending the men crossing the bridge into the water. Several warriors are being carried downstream by the river current along with their weapons, although one man has managed to climb out of the water. Men in both armies are armed with bows, spears, and shields.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Theodor de Bry (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23831
Language: lat
Source Name: Americae pars sexta. Sive Historiæ ab Hieronymo Be[n]zono Mediolane[n]se scriptæ, sectio tertia, res no[n] minus nobiles & admiratione plenas continens, quàm præcedentes duæ. In hacenim reperies, qua ratione Hispani opule[n]tisimas illas Peruani regni provincias occuparint, capto Rege Atabaliba: deinde orta inter ipsos Hispanos in eo regno civilia bella.
Parent Collection: 1596 Bry
Image: mta_23831_OBJ.png