MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
0654
Record number:
0654-2
JCB call number:
J558 S776w
Image title:
[Tupinamba settlement]
Place image published:
[Antwerp]
Image publisher:
[C. Plantin]
Image date:
[1558]
Image function:
illustration; XXIX Capittel, signature G4
Technique:
woodcut
Image dimension height:
4.9 cm.
Image dimension width:
6.7 cm.
Page dimension height:
13.5 cm.
Page dimension width:
8.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Bird's-eye view of a palisaded native American settlement. Includes native Americans at the center of the settlement, skulls on poles, and boats drawn up to shore.
Source creator:
Staden, Hans, ca. 1525-ca. 1576
Source Title:
[Warhaftige Historia und Beschreibung. Dutch] Warachtige historie ende beschriuinge eens lants in America ghelegen, ...
Source place of publication:
Tantvverpen [Antwerp]
Source publisher:
By Christoffel Plantijn, inde[n] gulden eenhooren
Source date:
1558
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.
Time Period:
1492-1600
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1846.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Brazil
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Tupinamba Indians
Subject headings:
Indians of South America--Brazil

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