Comme les Sauuages usent enuers leur malades. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Comme les Sauuages usent enuers leur malades.
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Paris; France
Description: Inside a structure, a group of Indigenous people tend to a sick man. The man stands in the middle of the group with his arms outstretched to either side. Two people each hold one of the sick man’s arms, with the person on the right touching his lips to the man’s arm. Another man stands behind the afflicted man and holds him by the shoulders. To the right, a man wearing a feathered headdress holds a rattle or other ornament over the group. There is a hammock slung between two beams of the structure behind the group, above them a monkey and a bird sit on another beam and a bow and bundles of arrows lie on the ground. This image is identical to one found on page 935 of Paris, 1575 (l’Huillier), and in Thevet’s Les Singularitez de la France Antarctique (page 88 verso of Paris, 1557 and page 88 verso of Paris, 1558).
Image Creator: Unknown (Woodcutter);Guillaume Chaudière (Printer); Unknown (Woodcutter); Guillaume Chaudière (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:23542
Language: fre
Source Name: La Cosmographie Vniverselle d’André Thevet Cosmographe du Roy
Parent Collection: 1575 Paris; 1575 Paris
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Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Brazil; Care of the sick; Healing; Religious articles; Traditional medicine - South America; Hammocks

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