[The Tupinambá prepare a traditional beverage for a celebration] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [The Tupinambá prepare a traditional beverage for a celebration]
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire
Description: Tupinambá women prepare an alcoholic beverage using manioc (cassava) roots. On the left they chew the roots and spit them into a large pot. They then boil the chewed roots in a large pot over the fire, then strain the liquid into pots to cool (right). Behing the women, men drink from bowls and one plays a small wind instrument. More men dance in the background, holding round objects with half-moon symbols on them, perhaps ratels or religious items. Most of the men wear feathered headdresses and adornments around their waists, and some also wear feathered capes and necklaces.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver);Hans Staden (Author);Johann Wechel (Printer); Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Hans Staden (Author); Johann Wechel (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23267
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 – South America – Social life and customs; Indigenous peoples – South America – Rites and ceremonies; Indigenous peoples – Alcohol use – South America; Cassava; Featherwork

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