[Two Indigenous Brazilian groups in conflict with each other] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Two Indigenous Brazilian groups in conflict with each other]
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Rio de Janeiro; Brazil; South America; Paris; France; Fort Coligny
Description: Two groups of Indigenous Brazilians engage in armed conflict. Members of both groups wield bows and arrows and clubs, and some bite members of the opposing group. Most of the men in both groups wear feathered headdresses and adornments around their waists, and some wear necklaces. Several men have fallen to the ground.
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:23377
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_23377_OBJ.png
Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous peoples – Warfare – South America; Bow and arrow; Featherwork; Indigenous peoples – Brazil