De l’arbre Choine. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: De l’arbre Choine.
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Fruit – Harvesting; Indigenous peoples – Food – South America; Fruit trees
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Paris; France
Description: Three Indigenous Brazilians, a man, woman, and child, are shown under a tall tree with large fruit, possibly a calabash tree. The woman sits on a tree stump holding one of the fruits from the tree while the child stands nearby, also holding a large fruit. The man has placed one of the fruits on a nearby stump and stands bent over it. This image is identical to one found on page 953 of Paris, 1575 (l’Huillier), and in Thevet’s Les Singularitez de la France Antarctique (page 105 of Paris, 1557 and page 105 of Paris, 1558).
Image Creator: Unknown (Woodcutter);Guillaume Chaudière (Printer); Unknown (Woodcutter); Guillaume Chaudière (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:23557
Language: fre
Source Name: La Cosmographie Vniverselle d’André Thevet Cosmographe du Roy
Parent Collection: 1575 Paris; 1575 Paris
Image: mta_23557_OBJ.png
Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Fruit – Harvesting; Indigenous peoples – Food – South America; Fruit trees