Contemporary Witnesses to Cultural Contact: New research and interpretive approaches to the material heritage of the indigenous people of the Amazon (Upper Rio Negro)
Freie Universität Berlin, Universität Bonn und Philipps Universität Marburg
Prof. Dr. Ingrid Kummels (Freie Universität Berlin), Dr. Michael Kraus (Universität Bonn), Prof. Dr. Ernst Halbmayer (Philipp Universität Marburg)
Jan 01, 2014 — Dec 31, 2014
Between 1903 and 1905, the German ethnologist Theodor Koch-Grünberg made a journey along the Upper Río Negro between Brazil and Colombia. The collection of 1,298 "objects" that he acquired, among others, in in communities of the Kotiria and Wira poná for the Ethnological Museum Berlin, formed ...