[Inside a village, Tupinambá women dance around a European man] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Inside a village, Tupinambá women dance around a European man]
Subject: Tupinamba; Indigenous women – South America; Colonists; Village communities; Indigenous peoples – South America – Rites and ceremonies; Indigenous women – South America; Tupi
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire; Brazil; South America
Description: A group of Tupinambá women dance in a circle around a European man, who wears a feathered headdress and ratels around his calves. Two of the dancing women have infants strapped to their backs. The village, labelled ‘Uwattibi’, is comprised of five long structures arranged in a pentagram and surrounded by a fence.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Hans Staden (Artist); Johann Wechel (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23252
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; 1592 Wechel
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Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Tupinamba; Indigenous women – South America; Colonists; Village communities; Indigenous peoples – South America – Rites and ceremonies; Indigenous women – South America; Tupi

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