Pourtraict du Roy Quoniambec. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Pourtraict du Roy Quoniambec.
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous chiefs – South America; Featherwork; Indigenous peoples – Jewelry – South America; Indigenous men; Indigenous weapons – South America
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Paris; France
Description: An Indigenous man, a king by the name or title of Quoniambec, is shown from the chest up. He is shirtless, and wears a feathered headdress, earrings, an adornment on his chin, and a necklace made of shells strung together. He holds a decorative club with both hands, and gazes intently into the distance. This image is identical to one on page 924 of Paris, 1575 (l’Huillier).
Image Creator: Unknown (Woodcutter); Guillaume Chaudière (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:23536
Language: fre
Source Name: La Cosmographie Vniverselle d’André Thevet Cosmographe du Roy
Parent Collection: 1575 Paris
Image: mta_23536_OBJ.png