Ceremonies com[m]e ils enterrent les trespassez. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Ceremonies com[m]e ils enterrent les trespassez.
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous peoples – Funeral customs and rites – South America; Burial; Mourning; Indigenous weapons – South America
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Paris; France
Description: A group of Indigenous people are in the process of burying the body of a deceased man. The body has been bound with rope about the arms and wrists and has been placed into the grave in a kneeling position. Two men kneel on either side of the grave each gripping one of the deceased man’s arms and holding a basket over his head. Two different men shovel dirt into the grave, and a third stands at the head of the grave holding a rattle or ornament and wearing a feathered headdress. Three women, one with a child by her side, crouch around the grave with their hands over their faces in distress, and there are bows and a club on the ground near their feet, perhaps to be buried with the deceased. This image is identical to one found on page 926 of Paris, 1575 (Chaudière), and in Thevet’s Les Singularitez de la France Antarctique (page 82 verso of Paris, 1557 and page 82 verso of Paris, 1558).
Image Creator: Unknown (Woodcutter);Pierre l'Huillier (Printer); Unknown (Woodcutter); Pierre l'Huillier (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:23503
Language: fre
Source Name: La Cosmographie Vniverselle d’André Thevet Cosmographe du Roy
Parent Collection: 1575 Huillier; 1575 Huillier
Image: mta_23503_OBJ.png
Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous peoples – Funeral customs and rites – South America; Burial; Mourning; Indigenous weapons – South America

Media: mta_23503_OBJ.png