[Tupinambá man in hammock eats a human foot while other human limbs roast over a fire nearby] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Tupinambá man in hammock eats a human foot while other human limbs roast over a fire nearby]
Subject: Ethnography; Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Cannibalism
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Holy Roman Empire; Brazil; South America; Marburg (Germany); Germany
Description: A Tupinambá man lounges in a hammock while appearing to eat part of a human foot. On the right side of the image a wooden rack is positioned over a fire, and human legs are suspended over the fire on the rack.
Image Creator: Hans Staden (Artist); Unknown (Woodcutter); Andres Kolben (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:22910
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_22910_OBJ.png