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| Keywords: Cannibalism in the New World, from Vespucci.jpg en The first known depiction of cannibalism in the New World Engraving by Johann Froschauer for an edition of Amerigo Vespucci's Mundus Novus published in Augsburg in 1505 Mundus Novus is Vespucci's account of his third voyage 1501-02 to the New World specifically to the eastern coast of Brazil The original caption in German reads This figure represents to us the people and island which have been discovered by the Christian King of Portugal or by his subjets The people are thus naked handsome brown well shaped in body their heads necks arms private parts feet of men and women are a little covered in feathers The men also have many precious stones in their faces and breasts No one also has anything but all things are in common And the men have as wives those who please them be they mothers sisters or friends therein they make no distinction They also fight with each other They also eat each other even those who are slain and hang the flesh of them in the smoke They become one hundred and thirty years old And have no government Mundus Novus Amerigo Vespucci 1505 Amerigo Vespucci Human cannibalism in art PD-old-100 | ||||
