[Two Tupinambá men with a parrot and a monkey] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Two Tupinambá men with a parrot and a monkey]
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Geneva; Republic of Geneva; Holy Roman Empire; Old Swiss Confederacy; Switzerland; Rio de Janeiro
Description: Two Tupinambá men are shown. One of the men stands in front of the other. He wears a feathered adornment at his back, attached to his body with a strap over one shoulder, ruffled adornments around both calves, and is otherwise nude. He bends down with one hand outstretched towards a monkey that sits on the ground beside him. The man standing behind him wears a feathered headdress and an adornment on his chin and is otherwise nude. He holds a rattle or an ornament in one hand, and stares at a parrot on a perch to his left.
Image Creator: Jean de Léry (Artist);Unknown (Woodcutter);Eustathius Vignon (Eustache Vignon) (Printer); Jean de Léry (Artist); Unknown (Woodcutter); Eustathius Vignon (Eustache Vignon) (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:22885
Language: lat
Source Name: Historia Navigationis in Brasiliam, qvae et America dicitvr. Qva describitvr avtoris nauigatio, quaéque in mari vidit memoriæ prodenda: Villagagnonis in America gesta: Brasiliensium victus & moris, à nostris admodum alieni, cum eorum linguæ dialogo: animalia etiam, arbores atque herbæ, reliquáque singularia & nobis penitùs incognita.
Parent Collection: 1586 Geneva; 1586 Geneva
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Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Indigenous men – South America; Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous featherwork; Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil

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