[The Tupinambá group’s manner of fishing] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [The Tupinambá group’s manner of fishing]
Subject: Tupinamba; Village communities; Indigenous peoples – Fishing – South America; Dugout canoes; Bow and arrow; Indigenous peoples of South America - Brazil; Tupi
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: South America; Marburg (Germany); Germany; Holy Roman Empire; Brazil
Description: Two methods of fishing used by the Indigenous Tupinambá group are shown. Three Indigenous people fish from a canoe using a bow and arrow to aim at the water. Two other people stand on a wooden bridge and fish using nets on the end of long poles. Beside them on the shore a bearded man stands watching them fish. There is a small pile of fish on the ground beside him. On the left side there is a village comprised of four long structures arranged in a square and surrounded by a fence.
Image Creator: Hans Staden (Artist); Unknown (Woodcutter); Andres Kolben (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:22943
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_22943_OBJ.png