[Two Tupinambá men] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Two Tupinambá men]
Subject: Tupi; Tupinamba; Tattooing; Body art; Bow and arrow; Indigenous featherwork; Indigenous peoples of South America - Brazil
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Marburg (Germany); Germany; Holy Roman Empire
Description: Two Tupinambá men are shown from the front. Both men are adorned with face stones on their cheeks and chins and tattoos or paint in dots all over their bodies. The man on the left wears a large necklace and carries a club decorated with feathers on one end. The man on the right wears a large feathered headdress and feather adornment around his waist and carries a bow and several arrows.
Image Creator: Hans Staden (Artist); Unknown (Woodcutter); Andres Kolben (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:22945
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; 1557 Marburg
Image: mta_22945_OBJ.png
Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Tupi; Tupinamba; Tattooing; Body art; Bow and arrow; Indigenous featherwork; Indigenous peoples of South America - Brazil