[A Tupinambá man, woman and child] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A Tupinambá man, woman and child]
Subject: Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous men – South America; Indigenous women - South America; Indigenous children – South America; Bow and arrow; Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Geneva; Republic of Geneva; Holy Roman Empire; Old Swiss Confederacy; Switzerland; Rio de Janeiro
Description: Three people belonging to the Tupinambá Indigenous group are shown; a man, woman and child (possibly a family unit). The man stands in front holding a bow in his right hand and arrows in his left. He wears a necklace and an adornment on his chin and is otherwise nude. The woman stands behind him with one hand on his shoulder and a baby in her other arm. Her hair is long, and she is nude. There is a hammock behind the group.
Image Creator: Jean de Léry (Artist); Unknown (Woodcutter); Eustathius Vignon (Eustache Vignon) (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:22870
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
Image: mta_22870_OBJ.png