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Title
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Indianer können die Spanier Tyranney nicht länger leiden, erwürgen sich selbs.
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Description
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A group of Indigenous people commit suicide to escape the brutality of the Spanish colonists. Men and women hang themselves by the neck from trees, leap off a high cliff, stab themselves with spears and knives, drown themselves in the river, and ingest poison. Mothers and fathers also kill their children.
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Image Creator
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Theodor de Bry (Engraver)
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Johann Feyerabend (Printer)
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Identifier
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mta:23710
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Source Name
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Das vierdte Buch Von den neuwen Welt. oder Neuwe und gründtliche Historien, von dem Nidergängischen Indien, so von Christophoro Colombo im Jar 1492 erstlich erfunden
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Image
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mta_23710_OBJ.png
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Subject
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Indigenous peoples – Hispaniola
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Suicide
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Indigenous peoples – Treatment of
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Colonists
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Spaniards
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Colonization
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Indigenous peoples – West Indies