[Practice of caring for the sick in an Indigenous Brazilian community] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Practice of caring for the sick in an Indigenous Brazilian community]
Subject: Tupi; Tupinamba; Care of the sick; Healing; Religious articles; Indigenous peoples – Brazil
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Rio de Janeiro; Brazil; South America; Paris; France; Fort Coligny
Description: Inside a structure, a group of Indigenous people tend to a sick man. The man stands in the middle of the group with his arms outstretched to either side. Two people each hold one of the sick man’s arms, with the person on the right touching his lips to the man’s arm. Another man stands behind the afflicted man and holds him by the shoulders. To the right, a man wearing a feathered headdress holds a rattle or other ornament over the group. There is a hammock slung between two beams of the structure behind the group, above them a monkey and a bird sit on another beam and a bow and bundles of arrows lie on the ground. 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:23460
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_23460_OBJ.png