[Indigenous Brazilians harvest fruit or nuts for leg rattles] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Indigenous Brazilians harvest fruit or nuts for leg rattles]
Subject: Maraca; Rattle (Musical instrument); Indigenous peoples – Brazil; Indigenous peoples – South America – Music
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Antwerp; Belgium; Spanish Netherlands; Fort Coligny; Rio de Janeiro
Description: Two Indigenous men and a child stand around a tree. The man on the right threads the items harvested from the tree (dried fruit or nuts) onto a string to make a leg rattle, like those worn by the man on the right. The man on the left dances with one hand on his hip, wearing leg rattles and holding a maraca or religious item in the other hand. Both men wear feathered headdresses. This illustration is a simplified and mirrored version of the one found on page 66 verso of Paris, 1557.
Image Creator: Arnaud Nicolai (Woodcutter);Christophe Plantin (Christoffel Plantijn) (Printer); Arnaud Nicolai (Woodcutter); Christophe Plantin (Christoffel Plantijn) (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:23406
Language: fre
Source Name: Les Singvlaritez de la France Antarctique, avtrement nommée Amerique, & de plusieurs Terres & Isles decouuertes de nostre temps
Parent Collection: 1558 Antwerp; 1558 Antwerp
Image: mta_23406_OBJ.png
Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Maraca; Rattle (Musical instrument); Indigenous peoples – Brazil; Indigenous peoples – South America – Music