Alkindar Miri
One of the two Tupinambá brothers who captured Hans Staden in 1554.
Brought to Ubatuba as a Captive, 1554
Hans Staden, True History and Description of a Land of Wild, Naked, Fierce Man-Eating People (Marburg, 1557), as reprinted by Karl Klüpfel (Stuttgart, 1859) · printed 1557 (events of 1554)
Ich wußte iren gebrauch so wol nit, als ich in darnach erfuhr, und gedacht, ietzund rüsten sie zu dich zutödten. Uber eine kleine weil kamen die, so mich gefangen hatten, mit namen Jeppipo Wasu, und sein bruder Alkindar Miri, Sagten, Wie sie mich ires vatters bruder Ipperu Wasu auß freundtschafft geschenckt hatten, derselbige soll mich verwaren, und mich auch tod schlagen, wann man mich essen wolte, und ime also einen namen mit mir machen.
I did not know their customs as well as I learned them later, and I thought, "Now they are getting ready to kill you." After a little while the men who had captured me came, Jeppipo Wasu and his brother Alkindar Miri. They said they had given me as a gift of friendship to their father's brother, Ipperu Wasu. He was to keep me, and also to club me to death when it was time to eat me, and so win himself a name by me.