Presença Karajá and the Fritz Krause collection

an argument for embedded restitution

Authors

  • Miriam Hamburger GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/hawo.v3.72251

Keywords:

Iny-Karajá. Ritxoko. Immaterial Restitution. Provenance. Social Museology.

Abstract

This article describes the current cooperation between Presença Karajá, an
interdisciplinary research project that maps and analyzes collections of Karajá dolls
(ritxoko) in museum collections, and the GRASSI Museum for Ethnology in Leipzig,
Germany, part of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD). Together, the
working group analyzed the collection of ritxoko embedded in other Iny-Karajá
materials, gathered and documented by Dr. Fritz Krause (1881-1963) in 1908. Based
on Krause’s published works from his expedition, Iny-Karajá anthropological contributions, insights from Iny-Karajá representatives, and the ritxoko themselves, the working group investigated the provenance, ethnography, and anthropological data together, gathering valuable research results for the collection history as well as
for the Iny-Karajá themselves. Presença Karajá offered the Museum an opportunity to enhance the history of its collections as well as to support the goals of what the Museum calls “immaterial restitution”: strengthening Indigenous cultures and granting them greater sovereignty over their heritage.

Author Biography

Miriam Hamburger, GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

Miriam Hamburger is an independent researcher and a Masters student at Leipzig University in the department of religious studies. She worked at the GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig between 2017-2022 in various positions, including as a research assistant in the department of provenance research and restitution claims. There she developed a focus on ethical issues related to objects and ancestral remains in collecting institutions. She completed her Bachelor's degree at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California, (USA) in religious studies and art history. She has been working with the Presença Karajá group since 2021.

 

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HAMBURGER, M. Presença Karajá and the Fritz Krause collection: an argument for embedded restitution. Hawò, Goiânia, v. 3, p. 1–47, 2022. DOI: 10.5216/hawo.v3.72251. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/hawo/article/view/72251. Acesso em: 4 dec. 2024.

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Vol. 3 (2022): "Ritxoko is gold!"

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