[The Tupinambá return to their village with prisoners] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [The Tupinambá return to their village with prisoners]
Subject: Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Cannibalism; Executions and executioners; Dugout canoes; Bow and arrow; Village communities; Hammocks
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire
Description: A group of Tupinambá men return by canoe to their village. They have four male captives who are tied together with rope around their thighs and wrists. Presumably the scenes of cannibalism depict the fate of the captives. To the right a man kneels on the ground with both arms outstretched while two other men stand behind him: one with a club raised above his head poised to swing and the other with an arrow nocked and aimed at the kneeling man. Behind them a human torso lays on the ground, having had its limbs and head removed. In the background (center) and to the left there are two fires with wooden frames set over them; human limbs have been set on the frames to roast over the fire.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Hans Staden (Artist); Johann Wechel (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23264
Language: lat
Source Name: Americæ tertia pars Memorabile provinciæ Brasiliæ Historiam continēs, germanico primium sermone scriptum à Ioāne Stadio Hombergensi Hesso, nunc autem latinitate donatam à Teucrio Annaeo Priuato Colchanthe PO: & Med: Addita est Narratio profectionis Ioannis Lerij in eamdem Provinciam, quā ille initio gallicè conscripsit, postea verò Latinam fecit. His accessit Descriptio Morum & Ferocitatis incolarum illius Regionis, atque Colloquium ipsorum iodiomate consciptum.
Parent Collection: 1592 Wechel
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