[A European man and a Tupinambá woman weep into their hands while a Tupinambá man stands behind them] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A European man and a Tupinambá woman weep into their hands while a Tupinambá man stands behind them]
Subject: Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous men – South America; Indigenous women – South America; Bow and arrow; Hammocks; Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Geneva; Republic of Geneva; Holy Roman Empire; Old Swiss Confederacy; Switzerland; Rio de Janeiro
Description: Two Tupinambá people – a man and a woman – and a European man are shown. The woman has long hair twisted into two braids and is nude. She crouches on the ground with her hands over her face, seemingly in emotional distress. The European man sits in a hammock, also holding a hand over his face in a display of emotion. There is a bucket on the ground under the hammock. Behind the two, the Tupinambá man balances a bow and arrow in one hand and holds a knife against the end of the arrow in his other hand.
Image Creator: Jean de Léry (Artist);Unknown (Woodcutter);Eustathius Vignon (Eustache Vignon) (Printer); Jean de Léry (Artist); Unknown (Woodcutter); Eustathius Vignon (Eustache Vignon) (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:22886
Language: lat
Source Name: Historia Navigationis in Brasiliam, qvae et America dicitvr. Qva describitvr avtoris nauigatio, quaéque in mari vidit memoriæ prodenda: Villagagnonis in America gesta: Brasiliensium victus & moris, à nostris admodum alieni, cum eorum linguæ dialogo: animalia etiam, arbores atque herbæ, reliquáque singularia & nobis penitùs incognita.
Parent Collection: 1586 Geneva; 1586 Geneva
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Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous men – South America; Indigenous women – South America; Bow and arrow; Hammocks; Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil

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