[Tupinambá men and women mourn a deceased man] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Tupinambá men and women mourn a deceased man]
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Geneva; Republic of Geneva; Holy Roman Empire; Old Swiss Confederacy; Switzerland; Rio de Janeiro
Description: A group of Tupinambá people – four women and a man – gather around a deceased man who lays in a hammock. Two women crouch beside the hammock with their hands over their faces in distress. Behind the hammock, two more women hold each other by the shoulders as they mourn, and a man stands behind them holding a rattle or ornament with one hand and wiping his face with the other. Both the deceased and living man have a facial adornment on their chin.
Image Creator: Jean de Léry (Artist);Unknown (Woodcutter);Antoine Chuppin (Printer); Jean de Léry (Artist); Unknown (Woodcutter); Antoine Chuppin (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:22860
Language: fre
Source Name: Histoire d’vn voyage fait en la terre dv Bresil, avtrement dite Amerique. Contenant la nauigation, & choses remarquables, veuës sur mer par l'aucteur. Le comportement de Villegagnon en ce païs là. Les meurs & façons de viure estranges des Sauuages Ameriquains: avec un colloque de leur langage. Ensemble la description de plusieurs Animaux, Arbres, Herbes, & autres choses singulieres, & du tout inconues par deça: dont on verra les sommaires des chapitres au commencement du liure.
Parent Collection: 1580 Geneva; 1580 Geneva
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Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous men – South America; Indigenous women – South America; Hammocks; Indigenous peoples- Funeral customs and rites – South America; Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil

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