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

Title: [Two Tupinambá men with weapons]
Subject: Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous men – South America; Indigenous weapons – South America; Indigenous peoples - Warfare; Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Geneva; Republic of Geneva; Holy Roman Empire; Old Swiss Confederacy; Switzerland; Rio de Janeiro
Description: Two Tupinambá men are shown, each holding a different weapon. One man stands in front of the other, holding a club with feathers on the end in one hand. The man standing behind him points a bow and arrow at something beyond the right edge of the image. Both men are nude and have an adornment on their chin. The man in front has marks (tattoos or paint) on his chest, biceps and thighs. The head of another man from an enemy group lays on the ground behind the men.
Image Creator: Jean de Léry (Artist); Unknown (Woodcutter); Antoine Chuppin (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:22852
Language: fre
Source Name: Histoire d’vn voyage faict en la terre dv Bresil, avtrement dite Amerique. Contenant la navigation, & choses remarquables, veuës sur mer par l'aucteur. Le comportement de Villegagnon en ce païs la. Les moeurs & façons de viure estranges des Sauuages Ameriquains: avec un colloque de leur langage. Ensemble la description de plusieurs Animaux, Arbres, Herbes, & autres choses singulieres, & du tout inco[n]nues pardeçà: dont on verra les sommaires des chapitres au commencement du liure.
Parent Collection: 1580 Geneva; 1580 Geneva
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Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous men – South America; Indigenous weapons – South America; Indigenous peoples - Warfare; Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil

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