Légende

Ewaiponoma or Blemmyae, 1599. Headless human creatures with their faces on their chests and armed with bows and arrows, as described in the accounts of Raleigh's search for El Dorado. Medieval Europeans imagined the inhabitants of distant lands must be exotic and bizarre. From Collection of Voyages, Part V, Kurtze wunderbare Beschreibung des Goldreichen Konigreichs Guianae in America (Short, wonderful description of the gold-rich kingdom of Guinea in America).

Date

1599

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A14_421

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50,0Mo (3,0Mo) / 41,3cm x 30,3cm / 4883 x 3577 (300dpi)

Mots clés

nature Germany tree unusual building face library German plant plants country body bodies arrow arrows weapon weapons bizarre quiver hut native war location century concept weird mythology headless chest B&W full length British Library full-length bow and arrow warfare fantastical imaginary mythical creature black & white black and white B W weaponry 16th century sixteenth century trees Blemmyae Ewaiponoma mythical beast indigenous indigenous people Unknown Levinus Hulsius Hulsius Sir Walter Raleigh Raleigh Sir Walter Ralegh Walter Raleigh Walter mythical creatures Sir Walter Heritage Art mythical beasts Sir W Raleigh mythological creature quivers Levinus