[Tupinambá women dance around a bearded man in a village] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Tupinambá women dance around a bearded man in a village]
Subject: Indigenous women – South America; Dugout canoes; Village communities; Indigenous peoples – South America – Rites and ceremonies; Indigenous peoples of South America - Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Marburg (Germany); Germany; Holy Roman Empire; Brazil; South America
Description: A small Tupinambá village is shown. There is a fence around part of the perimeter facing the ocean. There are four long structures arranged in a square. A path leads from the village to the ocean where several canoes are anchored along the shore. A group of Indigenous Tupinambá women with braided hair, two of whom have infants in carriers on their backs, dance in a circle around a bearded man who wears a feathered headdress in the center of the village.
Image Creator: Hans Staden (Artist); Unknown (Woodcutter); Andres Kolben (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:22920
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_22920_OBJ.png