Hispani arbores, in quibus Indorum domicilia, succidunt, illosque deterbant. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Hispani arbores, in quibus Indorum domicilia, succidunt, illosque deterbant.
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Colombia; Indigenous families; Spaniards; Colonists; Tree houses; Axes; Murder; Swords
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Atrato River (Colombia); Colombia; South America; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire
Description: A group of Spaniards attack several Indigenous people in trees in the Atrato river region of present-day Colombia. The Indigenous people of the region built homes in the treetops because the land around the river was quite swampy. The Indigenous people throw rocks at the attackers on the ground below them and try to protect their children. The Spaniards use large wooden boards to protect themselves from the falling rocks while they try to chop down the trees with hatchets. They have successfully felled one tree and proceed to kill the family who lived among its branches with swords.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Theodor de Bry (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23830
Language: lat
Source Name: Americae pars sexta. Sive Historiæ ab Hieronymo Be[n]zono Mediolane[n]se scriptæ, sectio tertia, res no[n] minus nobiles & admiratione plenas continens, quàm præcedentes duæ. In hacenim reperies, qua ratione Hispani opule[n]tisimas illas Peruani regni provincias occuparint, capto Rege Atabaliba: deinde orta inter ipsos Hispanos in eo regno civilia bella.
Parent Collection: 1596 Bry
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