A identidade Ticuna: através da Coleção Nimuendajú do Museu Goeldi

Abstract

This work is part of the project "The Ticuna Indians and the Nimuendajú Collection at the Goeldi Museum. This research focuses on the technical and imagetic processes adopted in the making of musical instruments and how they relate to myth. In several accounts the neurotic character is perceptible, where each version can present a new interpretation within the cultural context, which generally evokes the origin of the society itself, in the case of the Ticuna related to their heroes Yoie Ipi. The zoomorphic figures are always present in the reports of the Indians, as can also be seen in the drawings collected by researcher Priscila Faulhaber, in the village Otaware-cüa, in 1999. Animals like the anteater, jaguar, monkey, frog, etc., or mythological figures like Yoi, appear in several accounts of the Indians' drawings. We can mention, Yoi taking his sister's hair to surround all the animals, making an enclosure with his sister's hair, surrounded the animals like the snake, tapir, paca. In other accounts, Yoi is trying to hunt the jaguar, he catches the jaguar eats Yoi. In the collection, the scheme currently employed in the classification of musical instruments is verified, and data that can serve anthropology is exposed, through information that expands the theme itself as well as the social processes transmitted through material culture.