Curt Nimuendajú’s Photographic Legacy of the Indians of the Rio Negro in 1927 (2013)

Curt Nimuendajú’s Photographic Legacy of the Indians of the Rio Negro in 1927

Renato Athias, curator, 2013

This set of 17 images from Nimuendajú’s Photographic Legacy is part of a larger collection which is held in the Ethnographic Collection Carlos Estevão de Oliveira of the State Museum of Pernambuco.

This exhibition was displayed at the VIII SALSA Sesquiannual Conference in Nashville (2013).

About the curator

Renato Athias is a Doctor in ethnology (1995) from the University of Paris 10, is the Coordinator of the Centre for Studies and Research on Ethnicity (NEPE) at Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil), Associate Professor at the Post-graduate Program in Anthropology at UFPE and in the Master in Anthropology at the University of Salamanca in Spain.

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