[Indigenous people armed with bows in conflict with Europeans] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Indigenous people armed with bows in conflict with Europeans]
Subject: Tupinamba; Cannibalism; Indigenous peoples – Warfare – South America; Bow and arrow; Fortification; Colonists; Coast defenses; Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil; Tupi
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: South America; Marburg (Germany); Germany; Holy Roman Empire; Cape St. Augustine; Brazil
Description: This image depicts a conflict between an Indigenous group and a group of colonists. The conflict is taking place around a European settlement on the coast of Brazil. The settlement is made up of three fenced areas, the middle of which contains dwellings and several cannons. The other two fenced areas contain several individuals and what may be a hammock (left) and several individuals and a cluster of mounds on the ground (right). Indigenous people roam mostly outside of the fenced areas carrying longbows, and a few Europeans outside the fences aim long guns. In the middle of the image is an inlet, where are ship with sails sits. A fort sits on an island at the mouth of the inlet, with another in the hills to the left of the inlet. To the right, a wooden rack and a container with human limbs sit, and two bodies missing their limbs lie on the ground. The image is not to scale.
Image Creator: Hans Staden (Artist); Unknown (Woodcutter); Andres Kolben (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:22911
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
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