[Fantastical scene of an Indigenous village] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Fantastical scene of an Indigenous village]
Subject: Colonists; Coastal settlements; Animals - Mythical; Spirituality – Indigenous – South America; Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Geneva; Republic of Geneva; Holy Roman Empire; Old Swiss Confederacy; Switzerland; Rio de Janeiro; Brazil; South America
Description: An Indigenous village is shown, full of fantastical creatures. In the center of the scene an Indigenous person speaks with two European men. A large hairy creature stands to the left of the three. In the foreground on the left an individual holding a bow emerges from a building. In the center another person lays on the ground with a horned, humanoid creature leaning over them. To the right two more individuals run from another of the horned creatures. There is a ship and a large creature in the water near the coast on the right, and further up the coast a person chases after a large winged creature. There are several structures in the background.
Image Creator: Jean de Léry (Artist); Unknown (Woodcutter); Eustathius Vignon (Eustache Vignon) (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:22884
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
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