Ruse de Quoniambech. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Ruse de Quoniambech.
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous chiefs – South America; Indigenous weapons – South America; Indigenous peoples - Warfare – South America; Firearms; Featherwork
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Paris; France
Description: An Indigenous king or chief named Quoniambec (as identified by the author) holds two large guns or muskets, one on each of his shoulders, aiming behind him towards an enemy group. Another Indigenous man lights the fuses on both guns to fire them at the same time. Quoniambec wears a feathered headdress and a round feathered adornment hangs at his back. A decorated war club lays on the ground near his feet. Men of both groups carry bows and arrows and some wear feathered headdress and round adornments. This image is identical to one found one page 952 of Paris, 1575 (l’Huillier).
Image Creator: Unknown (Woodcutter);Guillaume Chaudière (Printer); Unknown (Woodcutter); Guillaume Chaudière (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:23556
Language: fre
Source Name: La Cosmographie Vniverselle d’André Thevet Cosmographe du Roy
Parent Collection: 1575 Paris; 1575 Paris
Image: mta_23556_OBJ.png
Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous chiefs – South America; Indigenous weapons – South America; Indigenous peoples - Warfare – South America; Firearms; Featherwork

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