[A group of Frenchmen trade with the Tupinambá] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A group of Frenchmen trade with the Tupinambá]
Subject: Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Colonists; Coastal settlements; Monkeys; Parrots
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire
Description: A group of French traders stand in a small boat near the coast while one of their group stands on the shore speaking with a group of Tupinambá men. The French appear to be trading for monkey, parrots, and possibly brazilwood, and they have a large bird cage on their boat. There is a Tupinambá village nearby and a group of people stand near the shore, some holding bows and arrows. A European man, captive of the Tupinambá, swims out to the French boat but is prevented from boarding so swims back to shore.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Hans Staden (Artist); Johann Wechel (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23262
Language: lat
Source Name: Americæ tertia pars Memorabile provinciæ Brasiliæ Historiam continēs, germanico primium sermone scriptum à Ioāne Stadio Hombergensi Hesso, nunc autem latinitate donatam à Teucrio Annaeo Priuato Colchanthe PO: & Med: Addita est Narratio profectionis Ioannis Lerij in eamdem Provinciam, quā ille initio gallicè conscripsit, postea verò Latinam fecit. His accessit Descriptio Morum & Ferocitatis incolarum illius Regionis, atque Colloquium ipsorum iodiomate consciptum.
Parent Collection: 1592 Wechel
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