[Tupinambá people in canoes approach a large European ship] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Tupinambá people in canoes approach a large European ship]
Subject: Tupi; Tupinamba; Dugout canoes; Sailing ships; Colonists; Bow and arrow; Village communities; Coastal settlements; Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: South America; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire; Brazil
Description: A group of Tupinambá people in five canoes approach a large European ship near the coast. In the canoe closest to the ship, Tupinambá men communicate with the European sailors. There is also a European man standing in the middle of that canoe. The two men in the canoe on the right have been fishing, there is a pile of fish in the bottom of the canoe and one of the men holds a fish towards the ship. An Indigenous village can be seen near the shore behind the ship, and three men with bows and arrows walk along the shore.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Hans Staden (Artist); Johann Wechel (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23255
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; 1592 Wechel
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Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Tupi; Tupinamba; Dugout canoes; Sailing ships; Colonists; Bow and arrow; Village communities; Coastal settlements; Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil

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