[Tupinambá women dance around a man wearing a headdress] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Tupinambá women dance around a man wearing a headdress]
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: South America; Antwerp; Belgium; Spanish Netherlands; Brazil
Description: A Tupinambá village is shown, comprised of four long structures arranged in a circle and surrounded by a fence. Inside the village a group of women dance in a circle around a bearded man wearing a feathered headdress. Several of the women carry small children in slings on their backs. 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:22983
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_22983_OBJ.png
Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Tupi; Tupinamba; Colonists; Village communities; Indigenous peoples – South America – Rites and ceremonies; Indigenous peoples – South America – Social life and customs; Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil