Territorial duels between Botocudo tribesmen including wrestling and stick fighting to decide hunting ground violation. River Belmonte, Bahia, Brazil, South America. Illustration from Maximilian von Wied-Neuwied's "Travels in Brazil, 1815-1817." Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige Völkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. Goedsche (1785-1863) was a German writer, bookseller and publisher in Meissen.

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