[Tupinambá women make a traditional alcoholic beverage] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Tupinambá women make a traditional alcoholic beverage]
Subject: Tupinamba; Cassava; Indigenous peoples – Alcohol use – South America; Indigenous peoples of South America - Brazil; Tupi
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: South America; Marburg (Germany); Germany; Holy Roman Empire; Brazil
Description: A group of Tupinambá women is shown making a traditional alcoholic beverage using cassava (manioc) root. A group of women in the left corner of the image sit in a circle and chew the roots. Another woman tends a large pot over a fire on the right. In the foreground three women strain liquid into large pots while two other women nearby carry children on their backs.
Image Creator: Hans Staden (Artist); Unknown (Woodcutter); Andres Kolben (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:22951
Language: ger
Source Name: Warhaftige Historia vnd beschreibung eyner Landtschafft der Wilden, Nacketen, Grimmigen Menschfresser Leuthen, in der Newenwelt America gelegen, vor vnd nach Christi geburt im Land zu Hessen vnbekant, biß vff dise ij. nechst vergangene jar, Da sie Hans Staden von Homberg auß Hessen durch sein eygne erfarung erkant, vnd jetzo durch den truck an tag gibt.
Parent Collection: 1557 Marburg
Image: mta_22951_OBJ.png