[A group of Indigenous people attacks the Tupinambá village called 'Uwattibi'] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A group of Indigenous people attacks the Tupinambá village called 'Uwattibi']
Subject: Tupinamba; Village communities; Indigenous peoples – Warfare – South America; Bow and arrow; Dugout canoes; Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil; Tupi
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire; Brazil; South America
Description: A Brazilian Indigenous group attacks the Tupinambá village 'Uwattibi'. The attcking group have arrived in canoes, which are pulled up along the shore on the right. They have surrounded the village and shoot arrows through and over the fence. These men wear feathered headdress and adornments around their waists, most carry bows and have arrows quivers slung around their shoulders, and a few also carry a shield. Several people, both in the attacking group and inside the village, blow into an object, perhaps a wind instrument or blow gun. Inside the village, Tupinambá men stand just inside the fence shooting arrows out towards the attacking group. The women and children in the center of the village run in panic.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Hans Staden (Artist); Johann Wechel (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23253
Language: lat
Source Name: Americæ tertia pars Memorabile provinciæ Brasiliæ Historiam continēs, germanico primium sermone scriptum à Ioāne Stadio Hombergensi Hesso, nunc autem latinitate donatam à Teucrio Annaeo Priuato Colchanthe PO: & Med: Addita est Narratio profectionis Ioannis Lerij in eamdem Provinciam, quā ille initio gallicè conscripsit, postea verò Latinam fecit. His accessit Descriptio Morum & Ferocitatis incolarum illius Regionis, atque Colloquium ipsorum iodiomate consciptum.
Parent Collection: 1592 Wechel
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