A materialidade dos grupos indígenas por meio da comissão Rondon (1907-1915)

Abstract

This research adresses about the indigenous groups’s materiality that had contact with the Comissão Rondon from 1907 to 1915. Hereby, the objective is to identify, describe and organize the materiality of these indigenous groups. For the realization of this research, was used primary and secondary sources about the Comissão Rondon. The primary sources were gotten at the Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia da Universidade de São Paulo (MAE-USP) and at the Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas da Universidade de São Paulo (FFLCH-USP). At these institutions there were more than seventy books about the Comissão Rondon, although were used only the minority of them, because a lot of them were about linguistics, botanic, zoology, astronomy, etc. that are not the focus of this research. Said that, the Comissão Rondon was an exploratory commission that had the objective to connect the brazilian northwest with the capital at the time: Rio de Janeiro. For that, were done three principal Expeditions (1907, 1908 and 1909) that opened ways for many other Expeditions. On that note, the commission discovered rivers and indigenous groups, opened roads, installed telegraphic stations (that later on evolved to municipalities) and studied the indigenous, the flora, the fauna, the geology, etc. On the thousands of kilometers that were covered, they had contact – always pacific – with a lot of indigenous groups of diverse languages and costumes and is about them that this research will focus.