[Practice of caring for the sick in an Indigenous Brazilian community] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Practice of caring for the sick in an Indigenous Brazilian community]
Subject: Indigenous peoples - Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Care of the sick; Healing; Religious articles
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Fort Coligny; Rio de Janeiro; Brazil; South America; Antwerp; Belgium; Spanish Netherlands
Description: Inside a structure, a group of Indigenous people tend to a sick man. The man stands in the middle of the group with his arms outstretched to either side. Two people each hold one of the sick man’s arms, with the person on the left touching his lips to the man’s arm. Another man stands behind the afflicted man and holds him by the shoulders. To the left, a man wearing a feathered headdress holds a rattle or other ornament over the group. There is a hammock slung between two beams of the structure behind the group, above them a monkey and a bird sit on another beam and a bow and bundles of arrows lie on the ground. This illustration is a simplified and mirrored version of the one found on page 88 verso of Paris, 1557.
Image Creator: Arnaud Nicolai (Woodcutter); Christophe Plantin (Christoffel Plantijn) (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:23419
Language: fre
Source Name: Les Singvlaritez de la France Antarctique, avtrement nommée Amerique, & de plusieurs Terres & Isles decouuertes de nostre temps
Parent Collection: 1558 Antwerp
Image: mta_23419_OBJ.png