[Tupinambá people smoke pipes in a village] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Tupinambá people smoke pipes in a village]
Subject: Indigenous peoples – South America – Social life and customs; Smoking; Village communities; Indigenous peoples of South America - Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Marburg (Germany); Germany; Holy Roman Empire; Brazil; South America
Description: A group of Indigenous Tupinambá people sit on the ground in a circle inside their village and smoke pipes. A bearded man stands in the center of the circle. The village is surrounded by a circular fence and is comprised of four long structures. In the bottom left corner there is a gap in the fence and two long poles with skulls mounted on top of them. There are stars in the sky, and a moon with a face that gazes down at the group.
Image Creator: Hans Staden (Artist); Unknown (Woodcutter); Andres Kolben (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:22926
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_22926_OBJ.png