Indianer können die Spanier Tyranney nicht länger leiden, erwürgen sich selbs. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Indianer können die Spanier Tyranney nicht länger leiden, erwürgen sich selbs.
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Hispaniola; Suicide; Indigenous peoples – Treatment of; Colonists; Spaniards; Colonization; Indigenous peoples – West Indies
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Antilles, Greater; West Indies; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire; Hispaniola; Haiti; Dominican Republic
Description: 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.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Johann Feyerabend (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23710
Language: ger
Source Name: 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
Parent Collection: 1594 Feyerabend; 1594 Feyerabend
Image: mta_23710_OBJ.png
Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Hispaniola; Suicide; Indigenous peoples – Treatment of; Colonists; Spaniards; Colonization; Indigenous peoples – West Indies