Theodor de Bry Art Gallery
These copper plated etchings were based on the watercolors of early American colonist John White (1539-1593). White was involved with the first attempt to colonize Roanoke Island in 1585. They depict the first Native Americans encountered by the Spanish conquistadors.
Christopher Columbus
The Egg of Columbus
Columbus leaving Spain on August 3rd, 1492
Arrival of Columbus on the Caribbean Island of Hispaniola
Battle in Jamaica
Natives roasting dragons, on Vespucci's first voyage
Vespucci at the Continent
The slaughter of the friars
Didaco Ocampo punishes the rebellion of the Natives
The Powhatan attack of March 22, 1622
Some Natives are killed, some perish in a fire
Spanish Conquistador Vasco Nunez de Balboa meets with the native ruler Panchiaco in Panama in 1513
Balboa releases bloodhounds on Natives
Natives pour liquid gold into the mouth of a Spaniard
The Natives worshipping the Caco-Demon
Luque blesses Almagro and Pizarro in 16th century
1526 Agreement in Panama between Conquistadors Pizarro and Almagro, and the priest Luque to explore and conquer Peru
Hernando de Soto before the Battle of Cajamarca in 1531
The capture of Inca Emperor Atahualpa at the Battle of Cajamarca on November 16, 1532
The Battle of Cuzco 1533
The arrest and imprisonment of Spanish conquistador Diego de Almagro
Spanish conquistador Pedro de Alvarado during the Mixton War (1540-1541) during the rebellion of Caxcan forces in western Mexico
A fortified Tupinamba village in Brazil under attack from a rival group
How they fight against each other
The triangular layout of Fort Caroline, a short-lived 16th century French Huguenot settlement in Jacksonville, Florida
French explorer Rene de Laudonniere and Timucua chief Athore viewing a commemorative stone pillar
Ceremonies performed by Saturioua before going out to war
Outina, going at the head of his army, against the enemy, consults a shaman on the event
Order of march observed by Outina on a military expedition
Timucua warriors in Florida driving arrows into the ground along the path to formally declare war on an enemy village
Killing crocodiles
The Native American Queen select being carried in a ceremonial palanquin
Solemnities at the Reception of the Queen by the King
First born children sacrificed to the chief with solemn ceremonies
Timucua ritual in Florida, specifically the solemn ceremony of consecrating and offering a decorated deerskin to the sun
The chief applied to by women whose husbands have died in the war or by disease
Christopher Columbus' arrival
Interactions of the explorers and the Indigenous people
The manner of making their boats
C'hamoru people in their fast sailing canoes approaching European ships at the Mariana Islands
Sir Walter Raleigh capturing and burning St. Joseph on the island of Trinidad in 1595
Sir Walter Raleigh's 1595 expedition to Guiana, depicting an encounter and trade with King Arromaia
Battle with the savages in the Strait of Magellan
Native miners of Potosi
Hunting rabbits and foxes
Violent conflict between the Mahu-De Cordes expedition and the Indigenous Patagonians in May 1599
Interactions between the Europeans and Indigenous cultures
Pizarro's forces entering and occupying the ancient Incan capital of Cuzco, Peru on November 15, 1533