COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
03782
Record number:
03782-2
JCB call number:
E580 L621h
Image title:
[Comments les Ameriquains traittent leurs prisonniers prins en guerre, & les ceremonies qu'ils obseruent tant à les tuer qu'à les manger]
Place image published:
[Geneva]
Image publisher:
[Antoine Chuppin]
Image date:
[1580]
Image function:
plate; p. 214
Technique:
woodcut
Image dimension height:
8 cm.
Image dimension width:
13.7 cm.
Page dimension height:
16.3 cm.
Page dimension width:
10.3 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Captive prepared for ritual killing [scene of cannibalism]. Native Americans [Brazilians] dance around a fire holding the victim who is bound with a rope. Artifacts include cord with which the victim is bound, the ceremonial club with which he is to be killed, ornament of bird feathers, and bow.
Source creator:
Léry, Jean de, 1534-1611
Source Title:
[Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil] Histoire d'vn voyage faict en la terre du Bresil
Source place of publication:
A Geneve [Geneva]
Source publisher:
Pour Antoine Chuppin
Source date:
M. D. LXXX. [1580]
notes:
Léry, a French Protestant, left France in 1556 to join a colony founded near present-day Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, by Nicolas Durand, chevalier de Villegagnon. The Protestants, fearing persecution, left Durand's colony and lived near the Tupinamba, a cannibalistic Brazilian tribe, for two months before returning to France in 1557. Léry did not publish his account of his experiences among the Tupinamba until 1578. Image is placed horizontally on page. Image title taken from chapter title.
Time Period:
1492-1600
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1868.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Brazil
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Cannibalism--Brazil
Subject headings:
Indians of South America--Brazil
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