The last of the nomadic Charrua people, Uruguay, 1833.
The last of the nomadic Charrua people, Uruguay, 1833. Medicine man Senacua Senaque (perhaps drinking yerba mate tea), warrior with bow and arrow Vaimaca-Piru Sira, and young couple Laureano Tacuave Martinez and Maria Micaela Guyunusa. The Charrua were exterminated by Spanish colonisers in 1831. Handcoloured lithograph by J. Bull from James Cowles Prichard's Natural History of Man, Balliere, London, 1855.
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