[Two Indigenous Brazilian groups in conflict with each other] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Two Indigenous Brazilian groups in conflict with each other]
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous peoples – Warfare – South America; Bow and arrow; Featherwork
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Fort Coligny; Rio de Janeiro; Brazil; South America; Paris; France
Description: Two groups of Indigenous Brazilians engage in armed conflict. Members of both groups wield bows and arrows and clubs, and some bite members of the opposing group. Most of the men in both groups wear feathered headdresses and adornments around their waists, and some wear necklaces. Several men have fallen to the ground. 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:23445
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_23445_OBJ.png