[Indigenous Brazilian men pick fruit from a tree] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Indigenous Brazilian men pick fruit from a tree]
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Fort Coligny; Rio de Janeiro; Brazil; South America; Paris; France
Description: Four Indigenous Brazilian men pick and gather fruit from a tree. One man has climbed the tree to pick fruit and drop it down into the arms of another man on the ground. Two other men at the base of the tree gather the fruit and put it into a basket for transport. This image is identical to one found in Frankfurt, 1557.
Image Creator: Unknown (Woodcutter);Heirs of Maurice de la Porte (Printer); Unknown (Woodcutter); Heirs of Maurice de la Porte (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:23465
Language: fre
Source Name: Les Singvlaritez de la France Antarctique, autremment nommée Amerique: & de plusieurs Terres & Isles decouuertes de nostre temps
Parent Collection: 1558 Paris; 1558 Paris
Image: mta_23465_OBJ.png
Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous peoples – Food – South America; Fruit trees; Fruit – Harvesting; Indigenous men