[A European man and a Tupinambá woman weep into their hands while a Tupinambá man stands behind them] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A European man and a Tupinambá woman weep into their hands while a Tupinambá man stands behind them]
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Geneva; Republic of Geneva; Holy Roman Empire; Old Swiss Confederacy; Switzerland; Rio de Janeiro
Description: Two Tupinambá people – a man and a woman – and a European man are shown. The woman has long hair twisted into two braids and is nude. She crouches on the ground with her hands over her face, seemingly in emotional distress. The European man sits in a hammock, also holding a hand over his face in a display of emotion. There is a bucket on the ground under the hammock. Behind the two, the Tupinambá man balances a bow and arrow in one hand and holds a knife against the end of the arrow in his other hand.
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:22866
Language: fre
Source Name: Histoire d’vn voyage faict en la terre dv Bresil, avtrement dite Amerique. Contenant la navigation, & choses remarquables, veuës sur mer par l'auteur. Le comportement de Villegagnon en ce pays-la. Les moeurs & façons de viure estranges des Sauuages Bresiliens: auec vn colloque de leur langage. Ensemble la description de plusieurs Animaux, Arbres, Herbes, & autres choses singulieres, & du tout inconnues par-deçà: dont on verra les sommaires des chapitres au commencement du liure.
Parent Collection: 1585 Chuppin; 1585 Chuppin
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Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous men – South America; Indigenous women – South America; Bow and arrow; Hammocks; Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil

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