Comme les Sauuages rotisse[n]t leurs ennemis. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Comme les Sauuages rotisse[n]t leurs ennemis.
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Cannibalism; Dismemberment; Axes; Fire; Indigenous cooking
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Paris; France
Description: A group of Indigenous Brazilians engage in cannibalism. A man on the right uses a hatchet to dismember a human body. Several limbs and torsos lie scattered on the ground around the group. A wooden frame has been erected over a fire, and an arm sits on the frame to roast over the fire. There is a structure on the right, and a dismembered head mounted on a long pole sticks out the window. This image is identical to one found on page 946 of Paris, 1575 (l’Huillier), and in Thevet’s Les Singularitez de la France Antarctique (page 77 of Paris, 1557 and page 77, a loose page tucked into the back cover of Paris, 1558).
Image Creator: Unknown (Woodcutter); Guillaume Chaudière (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:23553
Language: fre
Source Name: La Cosmographie Vniverselle d’André Thevet Cosmographe du Roy
Parent Collection: 1575 Paris
Image: mta_23553_OBJ.png