A group of 5 engraved plates of Indians in Florida, Virginia, and Colombia, most of them taken from Theodor de Bry's 1591 "Der ander Theil der newlich erfundenen Landtschafft Americae," and one of them from the Latin edition, "Americae pars Quarta," 1594. Includes some gory scenes of warfare and ritual mutilation, and what may the first printed image of a scalping. with--a text leaf from a later de Bry edition, possibly 1617, featuring an engraving of a cannibal feast.
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From Der ander Theil der newlich erfundenen Landtschafft Americae, Theodor de Bry, Frankfurt, 1591: "Der Fürsten und Herrn in Virginia abcontrasentung" Part II, plate III "Wie dess Königs Vtina Kriegsleute mit den erlegten Feinden umbgehen." The collection of scalps and other ritual mutilation on the batlefield in Florida. Part II, plate XV "Was für Siegzenchen sie pflegen auffzustecken und was für Fest sie halten wenn sie ire Feinde uberwunden haben." Chief Holata Outina demonstrates a victory ceremony to French observers in Florida; note the limbs tied to poles. Part II, plate XVI "Wie fleissig die Floridaner sind die Früchte in die gemeinen Schewren zu führen." A canoe full of provisions is paddled to a storage hut in Florida. Part II, plate XXII.
From de Bry, Americae pars Quarta, Frankfurt, 1594: "Indorum alij occiduntur, alij incedio pereunt. " A European attack on an Indian settlement in Colombia. Plate XVIII.
Possibly from de Bry's "America, das ist, Erfindung und Offenbahrung der Newen Welt," Frankfurt, 1617: Pages 152 and 153 including untitled illustration of cannibal feast.