[Tupinambá people tend to their sick, bury their dead, and mourn] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Tupinambá people tend to their sick, bury their dead, and mourn]
Subject: Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous peoples – Funeral customs and rites – South America; Burial customs; Care of the sick; Hammocks
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire
Description: Inside the village, two Tupinambá men lower the body of a third man into a grave. The deceased man has been wrapped in cloth. Around the burial site, women crouch with their hands over the faces in mourning, and two women hold each other by the shoulders in comfort. There is a sick man lying in a hammock near the grave site, being tended to by a man who holds a ceremonial/decorative staff.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver);Hans Staden (Artist);Theodor de Bry (Printer); Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Hans Staden (Artist); Theodor de Bry (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23289
Language: ger
Source Name: Dritte Buch Americæ, Darinn Brasilia durch Johann Staden von Homberg auß Hessen, auß eigener erfahrung in Teutsch beschrieben. Item Historia der Schiffart Ioannis Lerij in Brasilien, welche er selbst publiciert hat, jetzt von newem verteutscht, Durch Teucrium Annæum Priuatum, C. Vom Wilden vnerhörten wesen der Innwoner, von allerley frembden Gethieren und Gewächsen, sampt einem Colloquio, in der Wilden Sprach.
Parent Collection: 1593 Bry; 1593 Bry
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Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous peoples – Funeral customs and rites – South America; Burial customs; Care of the sick; Hammocks

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