[A Tupinambá man, woman and child] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A Tupinambá man, woman and child]
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Geneva; Republic of Geneva; Holy Roman Empire; Old Swiss Confederacy; Switzerland; Rio de Janeiro
Description: Three people belonging to the Tupinambá Indigenous group are shown; a man, woman and child (possibly a family unit). The man stands in front holding a bow in his right hand and arrows in his left. He wears a necklace and an adornment on his chin and is otherwise nude. The woman stands behind him with one hand on his shoulder and a baby in her other arm. Her hair is long, and she is nude. There is a hammock behind the group.
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:22861
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; Indigenous children – South America; Bow and arrow; Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil

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