Charruan playing cards

[2] According to Renzo Pi Hugarte (2014), the original cards from this deck —which belonged to the Charruan who were forcibly brought to France in 1833 (Vaimaca Pirú, Senacua Senaqué, Laureano Tacuabé and Micaela Guyunusa)— were lost, but what was preserved was the copy of these made by phrenologist Pierre-Marie Alexandre Dumoutier around the 1830s.

[1] In 1930, Paul Rivet published part of the unpublished manuscripts of Dumoutier, among which was the reproduction of the original cards.

Despite the fact of being inspired by European decks, he said that "the stylization of signs and figures are certainly a Charruan creation".

[2] However, Pi Hugarte stated that in series C two suits seemed to have been mixed: swords and batons, the latter whose drawings resembles the shape of the ibirapema maces used by the Guarani people at that time.

[1] On the other hand, Pi Hugarte, unlike Dumoutier and Rivet, pointed out that the deck was an incomplete one, which whose development was probably interrupted while its author was crafting the third and fourth suits.