Banquets & dances des Sauuages. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Banquets & dances des Sauuages.
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous peoples – South America – Rites and ceremonies; Horn (Musical instrument); Indigenous peoples – Alcohol use – South America; Indigenous weapons – South America; Featherwork
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Paris; France
Description: A large group of Indigenous Brazilian people take part in a long procession, possibly preceding or following a burial as part of a mourning practice. They first stop at a vat on the ground where they take a bowlful of the beverage inside. The group then proceeds towards their village and through several of the structures. Many members of the group wear feathered headdress, ornaments around their neck or waists, necklaces, and/or feathered capes. Many also carry bows, clubs, rattles, conch shells or other wind instruments, or pipes. This image is identical to one found on page 927 verso of Paris, 1575 (Chaudière), and in Thevet’s Les Singularitez de la France Antarctique (page 83 of Paris, 1557 and page 83 of Paris, 1558).
Image Creator: Unknown (Author);Pierre l'Huillier (Printer); Unknown (Author); Pierre l'Huillier (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:23505
Language: fre
Source Name: La Cosmographie Vniverselle d’André Thevet Cosmographe du Roy
Parent Collection: 1575 Huillier; 1575 Huillier
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Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous peoples – South America – Rites and ceremonies; Horn (Musical instrument); Indigenous peoples – Alcohol use – South America; Indigenous weapons – South America; Featherwork

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