A repatriação do manto Tupinambá: tramas e territórios no contexto dos bens culturais indígenas

Abstract

This research, developed in the context of the postgraduate program in art history at the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, deals with the movement that culminated in the repatriation of one of the Tupinambá cloaks – which was part of the collection of the National Museum of Denmark – to the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro. The process that lasted twenty-four years is deeply related to the struggle of the Tupinambá people of Olivença for the demarcation of their territory, located in the south of the state of Bahia. Another aspect of the research is the understanding of the cloak as a plural category of goods, but which are just different representations of the ancestral cloak. To this end, the research will present the contemporaneous existing cloaks and their different symbolic meanings. In this way, territorial elements and objects produced by indigenous groups were intertwined in this work, which will also address in more depth contemporary debates on repatriation and some aspects of the field of indigenous art