Tououpinambaultiorum cum Margaiatibus certamen · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Tououpinambaultiorum cum Margaiatibus certamen
Subject: Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous men – South America; Indigenous peoples – Warfare – South America; Indigenous weapons – South America; Village communities; Cannibalism; 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 groups of Indigenous people are shown engaged in conflict. Individuals on both sides wield a combination of bows and arrows and clubs as weapons. A few people also carry small shields. Members of both groups wear feathered headdresses and feathered adornments slung around their shoulders and hanging at their backs. In the background behind the warring groups there is an Indigenous village with several people going about their lives. There are two long structures on the right and two hammocks strung between trees. One person lounges in a hammock, another carries firewood. A woman sits on the ground with a child while another child carrying a small bow walks nearby. A monkey also sits near the group. To the left, a rack with several human limbs on it sits over a large fire.
Image Creator: Jean de Léry (Artist); Unknown (Woodcutter); Eustathij Vignon (Eustache Vignon) (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:22891
Language: lat
Source Name: Historia Navigationis in Brasiliam, qvae et America dicitvr. Qva describitvr avthoris nauigatio, quaéque in mari vidit memoriæ prodenda: Villagagnonis in America gesta: Brasiliensium victus & moris, à nostris admodum alieni, cum eorum linguæ dialogo: animalia etiam, arbores atque herbæ, reliquáque singularia & nobis penitus incognita.
Parent Collection: 1594 Vignon; 1594 Vignon
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Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Tupi; Tupinamba; Indigenous men – South America; Indigenous peoples – Warfare – South America; Indigenous weapons – South America; Village communities; Cannibalism; Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil

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