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Several paintings of Post show native Brazilians traveling on foot, occasionally in the company of Europeans. In this painting, there are seven women, six children, and six men, all natives. The women bear rectangular baskets on their heads and backs, the latter supported by straps slung from the forehead. At least two of the women have dead birds in their hands. The second and third women from the left carry infants. The young woman sitting on the ground has evidently lost control of her basket, to the irritation of the woman on the right. Four of the men carry bows and long arrows, while two of them shoulder muskets and wear cartridge belts.
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