[An Indigenous Brazilian group participates in a ceremonial procession] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [An Indigenous Brazilian group participates in a ceremonial procession]
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous peoples – South America – Rites and ceremonies; Horn (Musical instrument); Indigenous peoples – Alcohol use – South America; Indigenous weapons – South America; Featherwork
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Fort Coligny; Rio de Janeiro; Brazil; South America; France; Paris
Description: A large group of Indigenous Brazilian people take part in a long procession, possibly preceding or following a burial as part of a mourning practice. They first stop at a vat on the ground where they take a bowlful of the beverage inside. The group then proceeds towards their village and through several of the structures. Many members of the group wear feathered headdress, ornaments around their neck or waists, necklaces, and/or feathered capes. Many also carry bows, clubs, rattles, conch shells or other wind instruments, or pipes. This image is identical to one found in Frankfurt, 1557.
Image Creator: Unknown (Woodcutter); Heirs of Maurice de la Porte (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:23458
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_23458_OBJ.png