[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);Johann Wechel (Printer); Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Hans Staden (Artist); Johann Wechel (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23257
Language: lat
Source Name: Americæ tertia pars Memorabile provinciæ Brasiliæ Historiam continēs, germanico primium sermone scriptum à Ioāne Stadio Hombergensi Hesso, nunc autem latinitate donatam à Teucrio Annaeo Priuato Colchanthe PO: & Med: Addita est Narratio profectionis Ioannis Lerij in eamdem Provinciam, quā ille initio gallicè conscripsit, postea verò Latinam fecit. His accessit Descriptio Morum & Ferocitatis incolarum illius Regionis, atque Colloquium ipsorum iodiomate consciptum.
Parent Collection: 1592 Wechel; 1592 Wechel
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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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