Comme ce peuple fait le feu. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Comme ce peuple fait le feu.
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Firemaking; Smoking; Indigenous children – South America; Featherwork; Bow and arrow
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Paris; France
Description: An Indigenous man wearing a feathered headdress and ornament at his back starts a fire by twirling a long stick against a log on the ground. Another man, also wearing a feathered headdress and carrying a bow, watches and smokes a cigar (or similar item). Several women and children are also amongst the group, including a small child carried in a basket on a woman’s back and another child who carries a miniature bow and kneels on the ground to watch the fire starting. This image is identical to one found on page 938 of Paris, 1575 (Chaudière), and in Thevet’s Les Singularitez de la France Antarctique (Paris 1557, Paris 1558).
Image Creator: Unknown (Woodcutter); Pierre l'Huillier (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:23509
Language: fre
Source Name: La Cosmographie Vniverselle d’André Thevet Cosmographe du Roy
Parent Collection: 1575 Huillier
Image: mta_23509_OBJ.png