[Indigenous Brazilian men chop down a tree] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Indigenous Brazilian men chop down a tree]
Subject: Tupi; Tupinamba; Tree felling; Indigenous peoples – Implements – South America; Axes; Indigenous men; Indigenous peoples – Brazil
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Rio de Janeiro; Brazil; South America; Paris; France; Fort Coligny
Description: Three Indigenous Brazilian men are in the process of chopping down a tree. One man swings a hatchet at the trunk of the tree, while the other two gather logs or branches. One of the men wears a feathered headdress.
Image Creator: Unknown (Woodcutter); Heirs of Maurice de la Porte (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:23389
Language: fre
Source Name: Les Singvlaritez de la France Antarctique, autremment nommée Amerique: & de plusieurs Terres & Isles decouuertes de nostre temps
Parent Collection: 1557 Paris; 1557 Paris
Image: mta_23389_OBJ.png
Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Tupi; Tupinamba; Tree felling; Indigenous peoples – Implements – South America; Axes; Indigenous men; Indigenous peoples – Brazil