[Tupinambá women cut the hair of a European man] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Tupinambá women cut the hair of a European man]
Subject: Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Colonists; Village communities; Coastal settlements
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Antwerp; Belgium; Spanish Netherlands
Description: An Tupinambá Indigenous village is shown, comprised of four long structures arranged in a circle and surrounded by a fence. Inside the village two Indigenous women cut the hair of a European man while several other women watch. The village is on the coast of Brazil, the shoreline is visible in the background and five canoes are anchored there. Several long poles with skulls mounted on the ends have been planted in the ground around the fence.
Image Creator: Hans Staden (Artist);Unknown (Woodcutter);Christophe Plantin (Christoffel Plantijn) (Printer); Hans Staden (Artist); Unknown (Woodcutter); Christophe Plantin (Christoffel Plantijn) (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:22982
Language: dut
Source Name: Warachtige historie ende beschrrivinge eens lants in America ghelegen, vviens invvoonders vvilt, naeckt, seer godloos, ende vvreede menschen eters sijn
Parent Collection: 1558 Antwerp; 1558 Antwerp
Image: mta_22982_OBJ.png
Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Colonists; Village communities; Coastal settlements