Comme[n]t les Sauuages boivent & mangent. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Comme[n]t les Sauuages boivent & mangent.
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Paris; France
Description: A group of Indigenous men, women, and children gather around two large pots, one sitting on the ground and one resting on a fire. The group cooks and eats meat and fish. Two individuals sit in a large hammock while the rest sit and stand on the ground around the pots. One structure is visible in the background. This image is identical to one found on page 930 verso of Paris, 1575 (Chaudière), and in Thevet’s Les Singularitez de la France Antarctique (page 57 of Paris, 1557 and page 57 of Paris, 1558).
Image Creator: Unknown (Woodcutter);Pierre l'Huillier (Printer); Unknown (Woodcutter); Pierre l'Huillier (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:23507
Language: fre
Source Name: La Cosmographie Vniverselle d’André Thevet Cosmographe du Roy
Parent Collection: 1575 Huillier; 1575 Huillier
Image: mta_23507_OBJ.png
Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous cooking; Indigenous peoples – South America – Social life and customs; Hammocks