Two moments of the Aparai Collection in Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Curt Nimuendajú in 1915 and Otto Schulz-Kampfhenkel in 1935-37

Abstract

Short-term research funded by CNPq, whose purpose was to clarify doubts regarding the documentation of 206 objects of the Aparai indigenous group, Collected and deposited at the Emílio Goeldi Museum (MPEG) by Curt Nimuendajú and Otto Schulz-Kampfhenkel. The theoretical foundation is based on the concepts of document and information and the premises of renowned authors of the fields of Museology, Information Science, History, among others. The methodology used included documentary research with historical bias to compare the trajectories of the two Germans in the Amazon and to verify if the two researchers participated together in expeditions along the Jari and Paru rivers, and jointly deposited or not ethnographical objects in MPEG. The results indicate that these Aparai objects were deposited in the Museum in 1915 by Curt Nimuendajú and between 1935-1937 by Otto Schulz-Kampfhenkel.