Combat des Sauuages. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Combat des Sauuages.
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous peoples – Warfare – South America; Indigenous weapons – South America; Bow and arrow; Featherwork
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Paris; France
Description: Two groups of Indigenous people (the Margageaz and the Tabaiares, according to the author) are shown engaged in combat. Both groups are comprised of men wielding an assortment of clubs, bows and arrows, shields and spears. Some also use their teeth as weapons, biting the hands and arms of their enemies. Members of both groups wear necklaces and round feathered adornments hanging at their backs. In the background, a group of combatants stands on a hill and to the right a structure appears to be on fire. This image is identical to one found on page 942 verso of Paris, 1575 (l’Huillier).
Image Creator: Unknown (Woodcutter);Guillaume Chaudière (Printer); Unknown (Woodcutter); Guillaume Chaudière (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:23550
Language: fre
Source Name: La Cosmographie Vniverselle d’André Thevet Cosmographe du Roy
Parent Collection: 1575 Paris; 1575 Paris
Image: mta_23550_OBJ.png
Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous peoples – Warfare – South America; Indigenous weapons – South America; Bow and arrow; Featherwork