Co[m]me ce peuple couppe et porte le Bresil és nauires. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Co[m]me ce peuple couppe et porte le Bresil és nauires.
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Paris; France
Description: Several Indigenous men and women cut down brazilwood trees along the coast. They use axes to fell the trees, stack the logs into piles, then load the logs into rowboats to ferry them out to the larger European ships. Brazilwood was very popular in Europe in the 16th century and was mainly exported by the Portuguese with the help (and later, enslavement) of the Tupi people, although pirates and other European merchants also harvested and traded the wood. This image is identical to one found one page 950 verso of Paris, 1575 (Chaudière).
Image Creator: Unknown (Woodcutter);Pierre l'Huillier (Printer); Unknown (Woodcutter); Pierre l'Huillier (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:23516
Language: fre
Source Name: La Cosmographie Vniverselle d’André Thevet Cosmographe du Roy
Parent Collection: 1575 Huillier; 1575 Huillier
Image: mta_23516_OBJ.png
Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Lumber trade; Axes; Sailing ships; Merchant ships