[Tupinambá people relax, fish, and cook on an island] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Tupinambá people relax, fish, and cook on an island]
Subject: Dugout canoes; Fishing; Indigenous cooking; Hammocks; Atlantic coast – South America; ndigenous 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 is shown on an island. One person lays in a hammock, another fishes with a small basket, and others lounge on the ground or stand in a group. All are nude, at least one carries a bow and arrows while another carries what may be an oar. A bearded man lays on his back on the ground in front of several of the Indigenous people, with his hands pressed together in front of his chest as if in prayer. Five canoes are anchored along the lower right edge of the island. On the top right side of the island fish are laid out on a rack over a fire and a pot sits on the ground.
Image Creator: Hans Staden (Artist); Unknown (Woodcutter); Andres Kolben (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:22916
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
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