Contenance des Sauuages devant que venir au co[m]bat. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Contenance des Sauuages devant que venir au co[m]bat.
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous peoples – Warfare – South America; Indigenous weapons – South America; Bow and arrow; Horn (Musical instrument); Fire
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Paris; France
Description: Two groups of Indigenous Brazilians prepare to engage in conflict. Members of both groups are armed with bows and arrows and clubs, and some carry shields. Several individuals blow into long instruments resembling a type of horn, and at least one person blows into a conch shell. On the ground in the space between the groups, two men fight. There are two structures visible in the background, one of which is on fire. This image is identical to one found on page 943 verso of Paris, 1575 (l’Huillier), and in Thevet’s Les Singularitez de la France Antarctique (page 73 verso of Paris, 1557 and page 73 verso of Paris, 1558).
Image Creator: Unknown (Woodcutter);Guillaume Chaudière (Printer); Unknown (Woodcutter); Guillaume Chaudière (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:23551
Language: fre
Source Name: La Cosmographie Vniverselle d’André Thevet Cosmographe du Roy
Parent Collection: 1575 Paris; 1575 Paris
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Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous peoples – Warfare – South America; Indigenous weapons – South America; Bow and arrow; Horn (Musical instrument); Fire

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