[Tupinambá people greet each other in their village] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Tupinambá people greet each other in their village]
Subject: Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Village communities; Coastal settlements
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Antwerp; Belgium; Spanish Netherlands
Description: A small group of Tupinambá people greet each other in their coastal village. Five men and two children are shown. One man is emerging from an entrance in the side of a long structure holding a bow, and another of the men also carries a bow. A canoe with three people inside can be seen on the water in the background. It is nighttime, and the moon has risen in the left corner of the image
Image Creator: Hans Staden (Artist); Unknown (Woodcutter); Christophe Plantin (Christoffel Plantijn) (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:22987
Language: dut
Source Name: Warachtige historie ende beschrrivinge eens lants in America ghelegen, vviens invvoonders vvilt, naeckt, seer godloos, ende vvreede menschen eters sijn
Parent Collection: 1558 Antwerp
Image: mta_22987_OBJ.png