Portrait de l’herbe Petu[n] ou Angoulmoisine. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Portrait de l’herbe Petu[n] ou Angoulmoisine.
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous peoples – Tobacco use – South America; Tobacco; Village communities; Indigenous peoples – South America – Social life and customs
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Paris; France
Description: Three Indigenous men stand in the foreground beside a tall leafy tobacco plant. Two of the men hold tobacco leaves rolled up, one is lighting the end of the roll of leaves and the other has already lit his and is smoking. The third man reaches for a leaf from the plant. Two of the men carry bows, and the one on the left wears a necklace, in the middle a cape, and to the right a round feathered adornment. In the background closer to the village, several structures of which can be seen, another man carrying a bow smokes from a rolled leaf. This image is identical to one on page 927 of Paris, 1575 (Chaudière).
Image Creator: Unknown (Woodcutter);Pierre l'Huilier (Printer); Unknown (Woodcutter); Pierre l'Huilier (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:23504
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 – Tobacco use – South America; Tobacco; Village communities; Indigenous peoples – South America – Social life and customs

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