[Two Tupinambá men with weapons] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Two Tupinambá men with weapons]
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Geneva; Republic of Geneva; Holy Roman Empire; Old Swiss Confederacy; Switzerland; Rio de Janeiro
Description: Two Tupinambá men are shown, each holding a different weapon. One man stands in front of the other, holding a club with feathers on the end in one hand. The man standing behind him points a bow and arrow at something beyond the right edge of the image. Both men are nude and have an adornment on their chin. The man in front has marks (tattoos or paint) on his chest, biceps and thighs. The head of another man from an enemy group lays on the ground behind the men.
Image Creator: Jean de Léry (Artist);Unknown (Woodcutter);Eustathij Vignon (Eustache Vignon) (Printer); Jean de Léry (Artist); Unknown (Woodcutter); Eustathij Vignon (Eustache Vignon) (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:22895
Language: lat
Source Name: Historia Navigationis in Brasiliam, qvae et America dicitvr. Qva describitvr avthoris nauigatio, quaéque in mari vidit memoriæ prodenda: Villagagnonis in America gesta: Brasiliensium victus & moris, à nostris admodum alieni, cum eorum linguæ dialogo: animalia etiam, arbores atque herbæ, reliquáque singularia & nobis penitus incognita.
Parent Collection: 1594 Vignon; 1594 Vignon
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Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous men – South America; Indigenous weapons – South America; Indigenous peoples - Warfare; Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil

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