[Two Tupinambá men stand talking] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Two Tupinambá men stand talking]
Subject: Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous men; Indigenous weapons – South America
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Antwerp; Belgium; Spanish Netherlands
Description: Two Tupinambá men are shown in conversation. The man on the left is nude, barefoot and wears a necklace. He carries a traditional club in one hand. The man on the right is also nude and barefoot and wears a large feathered headdress that drapes down to the back to his knees. He carries a bow and arrows in one hand.
Image Creator: Hans Staden (Artist); Unknown (Woodcutter); Christophe Plantin (Christoffel Plantijn) (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:22993
Language: dut
Source Name: Warachtige historie ende beschrrivinge eens lants in America ghelegen, vviens invvoonders vvilt, naeckt, seer godloos, ende vvreede menschen eters sijn
Parent Collection: 1558 Antwerp
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