MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
03373
Record number:
03373-1
JCB call number:
J557 S776w1 [R]
Image title:
[Title page, pt. 2] Warhafftiger kurtzer bericht handel und sitten der Tuppin Inbas derer gesangner ich gewesen bin ...
Place image published:
[Marburg]
Image publisher:
[Bei Andres Kolben]
Image date:
1557
Image function:
illustration; title page, part 2
Technique:
woodcut
Image dimension height:
11.2 cm.
Image dimension width:
10.7 cm.
Page dimension height:
18.7 cm.
Page dimension width:
14 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
German
Description:
Two Tupi Indians with face stones, tattoos, a ceremonial club, feathered ornaments, and bow and arrow.
Source creator:
Staden, Hans, 16th cent.
Source Title:
[Warhaftige Historia und Beschreibung] Warhaftige Historia vnd Beschreibung eyner Landtschafft der Wilden Nacketen grimmigen menschenfressen Leuthen in der Newenwelt America gelegen
Source place of publication:
Gedruckt zu Marpurg [Marburg]
Source publisher:
Bei Andres Kolben
Source date:
1557
notes:
Hans Staden was a German soldier who traveled twice to Brazil on Portuguese ships. On his second trip in 1522, he was shipwrecked and captured by the Tupinamba, also known as the Tuppin Imba or Tupi, a cannibalistic Brazilian tribe. Image title taken from title of Part 2.
Time Period:
1492-1600
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1866.
Owner and copyright:
�John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Brazil
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Indians of South America--Brazil
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