Caramuru
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Caramuru was the Tupi name of the Portuguese colonist Diogo Álvares Correia, who is notable for being the first European to establish contact with the native Tupinambá population in modern-day Brazil
Sculpture by Eduardo de Sá
Tupinambá people
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The Tupinambá are one of the various Tupi ethnic groups that inhabit present-day Brazil, and who had been living there long before the conquest of the region by Portuguese colonial settlers. The name
The France Antarctique (Brazilian ball) for Henry II of France in Rouen, 1 October 1550. Over 300 nude men were employed to illustrate life in Brazil, and a mock battle between the Tupinambá allies of the French and the Tabajara people.
Original 1557 Hans Staden woodcut of the Tupinambá portrayed in a cannibalistic feast.
Catarina Paraguaçu, wife of Portuguese sailor Diogo Álvares Correia, in an 1871 painting.
"Salutations larmoyantes" ("Tearful salutations") describing the Tupinambás, in Histoire d'un voyage faict en la terre du Brésil (1578), Jean de Léry, 1580 edition.