[Indigenous Brazilians harvest fruit or nuts for leg rattles] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Indigenous Brazilians harvest fruit or nuts for leg rattles]
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Paris; France; Fort Coligny; Rio de Janeiro
Description: Two Indigenous men and a child stand around a tree. The man on the left crouches as he threads the items harvested from the tree (dried fruit or nuts) onto a string to make a leg rattle, like those worn by the man on the right. The man on the right dances with one hand on his hip, wearing leg rattles and holding a maraca or religious item in the other hand. Both men wear feathered headdresses.
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:23376
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_23376_OBJ.png
Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Tupinamba; Fruit; Nuts; Indigenous peoples – South America – Music; Maraca; Rattle (Musical instrument); Indigenous peoples – Brazil; Tupi