[Europeans and Tupinambá people engage in a naval battle] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Europeans and Tupinambá people engage in a naval battle]
Subject: Tupi; Tupinamba; Naval battles; Village communities; Sailing ships; Dugout canoes; Bow and arrow; Indigenous peoples of South America - Brazil
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Marburg (Germany); Germany; Holy Roman Empire; Rio de Janeiro
Description: Several large European sailing ships are shown off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. The Europeans fire cannons, guns, and bow and arrows at a group of Indigenous canoes. The Indigenous people fight back with bow and arrows from four canoes. There is a village on the coast comprised of two enclosures, both surrounded by fences. One consists of three long structures while the other has four.
Image Creator: Hans Staden (Artist); Unknown (Woodcutter); Andres Kolben (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:22944
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_22944_OBJ.png