[Tupinambá people approach the shore in canoes] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Tupinambá people approach the shore in canoes]
Subject: Dugout canoes; Atlantic coast – South America; Indigenous peoples of South America - Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Marburg (Germany); Germany; Holy Roman Empire; Brazil; South America
Description: Four canoes bearing a group of Indigenous Tupinambá people approach the shore. They are being blown towards the shore by the wind, with clouds behind them. There is a face in the clouds in the top right corner of the image. In the top left corner of the image is the sun, also with a face. A few of the Indigenous people are looking up and waving towards the sun. A bearded man (likely representing Staden) lies captive in the bottom of the canoe on the far-left side of the row. On the shore there are two structures.
Image Creator: Hans Staden (Artist); Unknown (Woodcutter); Andres Kolben (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:22918
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_22918_OBJ.png