[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); Theodor de Bry (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23297
Language: ger
Source Name: Dritte Buch Americæ, Darinn Brasilia durch Johann Staden von Homberg auß Hessen, auß eigener erfahrung in Teutsch beschrieben. Item Historia der Schiffart Ioannis Lerij in Brasilien, welche er selbst publiciert hat, jetzt von newem verteutscht, Durch Teucrium Annæum Priuatum, C. Vom Wilden vnerhörten wesen der Innwoner, von allerley frembden Gethieren und Gewächsen, sampt einem Colloquio, in der Wilden Sprach.
Parent Collection: 1593 Bry
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