[Conflict between two Brazilian Indigenous groups, one group on land and one at sea] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Conflict between two Brazilian Indigenous groups, one group on land and one at sea]
Subject: Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Colonists; Dugout canoes; Indigenous weapons - South America; Indigenous peoples - Warfare
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Antwerp; Belgium; Spanish Netherlands
Description: Two groups of Indigenous people are shown engaged in conflict along the coast of Brazil. One group attack from canoes along the shore, aiming bows and arrows at a group on land. There is one European man in the second canoe from the bottom, who shoots a gun or musket. The other group of Indigenous people stand on the shore, firing bows and arrows at the canoes. This group is joined by three European men, all of whom fire guns or muskets at the group in canoes.
Image Creator: Hans Staden (Artist); Unknown (Woodcutter); Christophe Plantin (Christoffel Plantijn) (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:22972
Language: dut
Source Name: Warachtige historie ende beschrrivinge eens lants in America ghelegen, vviens invvoonders vvilt, naeckt, seer godloos, ende vvreede menschen eters sijn
Parent Collection: 1558 Antwerp
Image: mta_22972_OBJ.png