[Conflict between two groups of Indigenous Brazilian people] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Conflict between two groups of Indigenous Brazilian people]
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Rio de Janeiro; Brazil; South America; Paris; France; Fort Coligny
Description: Two groups of Indigenous Brazilians engage in conflict. Members of both groups are armed with bows and arrows and clubs, and some carry shields. Several individuals blow into long instruments resembling a type of horn, and at least one person blows into a conch shell. There are two structures visible in the background, one of which is on fire.
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:23379
Language: fre
Source Name: Les Singvlaritez de la France Antarctique, autremment nommée Amerique: & de plusieurs Terres & Isles decouuertes de nostre temps
Parent Collection: 1557 Paris; 1557 Paris
Image: mta_23379_OBJ.png
Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous peoples – Warfare – South America; Indigenous weapons – South America; Bow and arrow; Horn (Musical instrument); Fire; Indigenous peoples – Brazil