Qvoniambec

Title

Qvoniambec

Period

1550-1600;

Geographic

Rio de Janiero

Brazil

South America

Paris

France

Description

Quoniambec (also known as Cunhambebe) is shown in portrait from the waist up, with his torso angled to his left and his head turned to the right gazing into the distance. He wears a headdress made of long feathers pointing skyward and three round facestones, one in each cheek and a larger one in his chin. Quoniambec also wears a beaded multi-strand necklace with a large crescent-shaped pendant. He has a round feathered adornment hanging at his back from a strap that crosses his body from his left shoulder. He carries an ornamental club in his right hand. Cunhambebe was a Tupinambá chief in the Guanabara region (today Rio de Janeiro) and down to Bertioga (present-day Saõ Paulo), of Brazil. He also led the Tamoio Confederacy, a group of Brazilian Tupinambá peoples united to fight the French colonization of Guanabara.

Image Creator

Unknown (Engraver);Widow of Jacques Kerver (Printer);Guillaume Chaudière (Printer)

Unknown (Engraver)

Widow of Jacques Kerver (Printer)

Guillaume Chaudière (Printer)

Type

StillImage

Copperplate engraving

Identifier

mta:23580

Language

fre

Source Name

Les Vrais Povtraits et Vies des Hommes illvstres Grecz, Latins, et Payens

Parent Collection

1584 Paris

1584 Paris

Image

mta_23580_OBJ.png

Collection

European Illustrations of Native Americans

Subject

Indigenous peoples – South America

Tupi

Tupinamba

Indigenous peoples – Kings and rulers

Headdresses

Featherwork

Indigenous weapons – South America