[Two Brazilian Indigenous groups engage in a naval battle] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Two Brazilian Indigenous groups engage in a naval battle]
Subject: Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous peoples – Warfare – South America; Colonists; Dugout canoes; Bow and arrow; Firearms
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire
Description: Two groups of Indigenous people engage in battle from canoes. Both groups are armed largely with bows and arrows and fire at each other, and members of both groups wear feathered headdresses and adornments around their waists. There are also a few individuals blowing into an object, perhaps a wind instrument or blow gun. Two European men stand in the prow of the canoe farthest from the viewer on the right, aiming long guns at the opposing group. There are several men in the water between the two groups of canoes.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Hans Staden (Artist); Johann Wechel (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23263
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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