[Indigenous Brazilians harvest fruit or nuts for leg rattles] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Indigenous Brazilians harvest fruit or nuts for leg rattles]
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous peoples – South America – Music; Rattle (Musical instrument); Maraca
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Fort Coligny; Rio de Janeiro; Brazil; South America; Paris; France
Description: Two Indigenous men and a child stand around a tree. The man on the left crouches as he threads the items harvested from the tree (dried fruit or nuts) onto a string to make a leg rattle, like those worn by the man on the right. The man on the right dances with one hand on his hip, wearing leg rattles and holding a maraca or religious item in the other hand. Both men wear feathered headdresses. This image is identical to one found in Paris, 1557.
Image Creator: Unknown (Woodcutter); Heirs of Maurice de la Porte (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:23444
Language: fre
Source Name: Les Singvlaritez de la France Antarctique, autremment nommée Amerique: & de plusieurs Terres & Isles decouuertes de nostre temps
Parent Collection: 1558 Paris
Image: mta_23444_OBJ.png