[Method of starting a fire of the Indigenous Brazilians] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Method of starting a fire of the Indigenous Brazilians]
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Fort Coligny; Rio de Janeiro; Brazil; South America; Paris; France
Description: An Indigenous man wearing a feathered headdress and ornament at his back starts a fire by twirling a long stick against a log on the ground. Another man, also wearing a feathered headdress and carrying a bow, watches and smokes a cigar (or similar item). Several women and children are also amongst the group, including a small child carried in a basket on a woman’s back and another child who carries a miniature bow and kneels on the ground to watch the fire starting. 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:23462
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_23462_OBJ.png
Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Firemaking; Smoking; Indigenous children – South America; Featherwork; Bow and arrow