[Tupinambá men and women mourn a deceased man] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Tupinambá men and women mourn a deceased man]
Subject: Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous men – South America; Indigenous women – South America; Hammocks; Indigenous peoples- Funeral customs and rites – South America; 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: A group of Tupinambá people – four women and a man – gather around a deceased man who lays in a hammock. Two women crouch beside the hammock with their hands over their faces in distress. Behind the hammock, two more women hold each other by the shoulders as they mourn, and a man stands behind them holding a rattle or ornament with one hand and wiping his face with the other. Both the deceased and living man have a facial adornment on their chin.
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:22888
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; Hammocks; Indigenous peoples- Funeral customs and rites – South America; Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil

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