Explore the artwork, stories, traditions, and mythology of Brazil's Indigenous peoples.
Explore the GalleryThis gallery shows and describes the cultural and artistic traditions of the Indigenous people in brazil. My gallery has a variety of different exhibits that you can use to learn about some of the groups located in brazil.
Explore the different works of art, objects, and stories featured in this collection.
Indigenous Group: Wajapi
Location: Northern Amazonian region
Description: The body art uses red dye from the roucou plant mixed with scented resins, the Wajapi people pain geometric figures, and other animals like jaguars, snakes, butterflies, and fish
Significance: The body art servs as a communication system that tells storys such as myths, and masses down social, religious, and identity across generations
Indigenous Group: Mebengokre
Location: North and Central-west regions of Brazil
Description: The headdress is made with colorful feathers and other natural materials.
Significance: The headdress was worn during important ceremonies, symbolizing the wearer's social status, beliefs, and connection.
Indigenous Group: Baniwa
Location: The lower Icana and on the Cubate, Cuiari and Aiari rivers
Description: A handwoven basket made from natural plant fibers, some made with geometric patterns
Significance: Basket weaving is preserves knowledge, techniques, and traditions across generations
Indigenous Group: Wayana and Aparai Native American people
Location: Guyana, Suriname and Brazil
Description: They were painted using colored clay, but are now painted using acrylic paints
Significance: They represent an evil enclosed by closed borders
Indigenous Group: the Karaja people (Iny)
Location: The banks of the Araguaia River in Tocantins
Description: Ritxoko dolls were small, unfired, and depicted the family
Significance: the Karaja people used stripes, dots, diamonds and bands to indicate age, gender, social position and life stages
Indigenous Group: The Marajoara people
Location: Marajo island is located in the mouth of the Amazon River
Description: They urns were custom hand designed for the person themsleves, to represent them and their life
Significance: The marajoara people used the urns to honor their dead, and to have a proper burial ceremony
Indigenous Group: The Ticuna people
Location: The Amazon rain forest of Brazil, near the borders of Peru and Colombia
Description: The Ticuna body masks are typically a paper like fabric made from the inner bark of certain trees
Significance: Traditionally the body mask is worn by men during girls initiation ceremonies
Indigenous Group: The Matis people
Location: The vast Vale do Javari Indigenous Park
Description: the mariwin are ancestors whose role involves hitting children in order to harden and discipline them
Significance: The masks represented spirits, armed with canes, moving about, stooping and growling scarily
Indigenous people are located all throughout brazil. Below is a map showing where they are, and the names of their territories.
This gallery shows and describes the cultural and artistic traditions of the Indigenous people in brazil. My gallery has a variety of different exhibits that you can use to learn about some of the groups located in brazil.