LSE4325951 Indian ticuna (Peru) attacking with a spear a tiger who just jumped into his canoe and injured his companion, the ticunas of the Nhamondas River are reputable for their warrior wives, so the first travelers and scholars to observe them called them Amazons. Engravure to illustrate the voyage from the Ocean Pacific to L\'Ocean Atlantique, through South America, in 1848-1860 by Paul Marcoy, in ???e tour du monde, nouveau journal des voyages?? published under the direction of Edouard Charton, 1866, Paris. Selva Collection. by Unknown Artist, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Indian ticuna (Peru) attacking with a spear a tiger who just jumped into his canoe and injured his companion, the ticunas of the Nhamondas River are reputable for their warrior wives, so the first travelers and scholars to observe them called them Amazons. Engravure to illustrate the voyage from the Ocean Pacific to L\'Ocean Atlantique, through South America, in 1848-1860 by Paul Marcoy, in ???e tour du monde, nouveau journal des voyages?? published under the direction of Edouard Charton, 1866, Paris. Selva Collection.); Photo by Leonard de Selva.