scholarly journals Volodymyr Hnatiuk – An Organizer and Participant in the Formation of Museum Ethnographic Collections

2021 ◽  
pp. 15-25
Author(s):  
Mykhaylo Hlushko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ethnographic Collections

Conserving ethnographic collections: problems of documentation

1982 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Losche ◽  
Sue Walston
Keyword(s):  
Ethnographic Collections

Virtual Ethnographic Collections

2021 ◽  
pp. 77-96
Author(s):  
José Carlos Levinho ◽  
Thiago da Costa Oliveira ◽  
Ione Helena Pereira Couto
Keyword(s):  
Ethnographic Collections

scholarly journals Tobacco visions: shamanic drawings of the Wauja Indians

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 501-517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aristoteles Barcelos Neto
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Visual Representation ◽  
Visual Interpretation ◽  
Animal Spirits ◽  
Visual Exegesis ◽  
Pencil And Paper ◽  
The Many ◽  
Ethnographic Collections

Abstract This article analyzes shamanic drawings based on research of two ethnographic collections gathered between 1978 and 2004 among the Wauja Indians of the Upper Xingu. The drawings present a visual interpretation of animal-spirits (the apapaatai) and their transformations, as seen by Wauja shamans in tobacco-induced trances and dreams. This article argues that drawing on paper allowed the shamans to broadly express their understanding of the many potential bodily forms the apapaatai can take, either voluntarily or involuntarily. The lack of a visual canon for visual representation of the apapaatai on paper gave the shamans the freedom to produce drawings which reflect an extraordinary diversity of singular perspectives. These singularities, when associated with the narratives of myths and dreams, potentiate the drawings as a kind of visual exegesis of Wauja cosmology. Further analysis considering material culture objects shows that the appropriation of pencil and paper by Wauja shamans channelled their creative energy towards an unexpected expansion in the conceptual boundaries of shamanic translation.

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