[Indigenous Brazilians cook and eat a meal] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Indigenous Brazilians cook and eat a meal]
Subject: Indigenous peoples – South America – Social life and customs; Hammocks; Indigenous peoples – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous cooking
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Paris; France; Fort Coligny; Rio de Janeiro
Description: A group of Indigenous men, women, and children gather around two large pots, one sitting on the ground and one resting on a fire. The group cooks and eats meat and fish. Two individuals sit in a large hammock while the rest sit and stand on the ground around the pots. One structure is visible in the background.
Image Creator: Unknown (Engraver); Heirs of Maurice de la Porte (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:23374
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_23374_OBJ.png
Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Indigenous peoples – South America – Social life and customs; Hammocks; Indigenous peoples – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous cooking