Santos Rocha Municipal Museum | October 30 and 31, 2023

On 30 and 31 October, part of the TRANSMAT project team met at the Santos Rocha Municipal Museum to begin provenance collaborative research into the ethnographic collections from Brazil that entered the Municipal Museum between 1893 and 1910. Esta investigação colaborativa será desenvolvida com a parceria de um grupo de investigadores do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia da Universidade de São Paulo (USP, Brasil).

Coordinated by Marília Cury (MAE-USP), a consultant for the TRANSMAT project, Kevin Cocchi (undergraduate student, CNPq-PIBIC scholarship holder) and Letícia Ribeiro Ferreira da Silva (PhD student in Archaeology) will analyse a collection of Brazilian objects identified and documented by the team from the Santos Rocha Municipal Museum and the TRANSMAT project team. During the virtual meeting that took place on 30 October, we introduced the USP researchers to the Santos Rocha Municipal Museum, the history of its collections and objects from Brazil. By making available research data based on the historical sources acessible in Portugal, we are now endeavouring to document these objects through the context of their provenance, consulting, if possible, their communities of origin.

This work is the result of a partnership established between the TRANSMAT project and researcher Marília Xavier Cury (University of São Paulo) with the aim of opening up new perspectives for analysing and researching the processes and contexts in which the collection was formed, as well as identifying the communities of origin associated with the collections at the Santos Rocha Municipal Museum.