[The Tupinambá engage in a religious or ceremonial dance] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [The Tupinambá engage in a religious or ceremonial dance]
Subject: Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Spirituality – Indigenous – South America; Indigenous peoples - South America – Rites and ceremonies; Indigenous dance – South America; Featherwork; Colonists
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire
Description: A group of Tupinambá men dance in a circle. They all wear round feathered adornments hanging down their backs and ornaments, possibly noisemaking, around their calves. The group dances around three men at the center of the circle. These men wear feathered headdresses, cloaks, and adornments around their waists. Two of them blow smoke from pipes towards the dancers, and all three hold a ratel or religious object with feathers on it. In the background, three European men stand and watch the ceremony.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver);Hans Staden (Artist);Theodor de Bry (Printer); Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Hans Staden (Artist); Theodor de Bry (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23309
Language: ger
Source Name: Dritte Buch Americæ, Darinn Brasilia durch Johann Staden von Homberg auß Hessen, auß eigener erfahrung in Teutsch beschrieben. Item Historia der Schiffart Ioannis Lerij in Brasilien, welche er selbst publiciert hat, jetzt von newem verteutscht, Durch Teucrium Annæum Priuatum, C. Vom Wilden vnerhörten wesen der Innwoner, von allerley frembden Gethieren und Gewächsen, sampt einem Colloquio, in der Wilden Sprach.
Parent Collection: 1593 Bry; 1593 Bry
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Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Spirituality – Indigenous – South America; Indigenous peoples - South America – Rites and ceremonies; Indigenous dance – South America; Featherwork; Colonists

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