Indigenous chants and the rattle of maracas are resounding in a Rio de Janeiro park, where Brazil’s Tupinambá people gathered to celebrate the homecoming of a sacred cloak absent for some 380 years
Indigenous chants and the rattle of maracas are resounding in a Rio de Janeiro park, where Brazil’s Tupinambá people gathered to celebrate the homecoming of a sacred cloak absent for some 380 yearsBrazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks during a ceremony celebrating the return of the Indigenous Tupinamba people's sacred cloak to Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024.
Celebrations to welcome the cloak have been underway since last week. The Tupinambá traveled 28 hours overland from the northeastern state of Bahia to enter the museum where it hangs in carefully calibrated lighting and temperature conditions to ensure its preservation. There, they conducted rituals and prayers with the cloak they view as a living ancestor rather than an object.
The cloak stands at nearly four feet tall, and the Dutch took it from Brazil in about 1644, according to a statement from Brazil's federal government. It has been in Denmark's National Museum for 335 years, it said. “When she arrived there, she felt great emotion. The cloak showed her, ‘I am here.’ … She was amazed,” Jamopoty recalled. The notion of petitioning for the cloak's permanent return was born.
Denmark’s National Museum has received three repatriation requests in the past decade, head of research Christian Sune Pedersen told The Associated Press. They responded positively to two, including that of Brazil, deciding to donate one of its five feathered cloaks partly to help rebuild Brazil’s national museum that was ravaged by flames
It marks the first time that an Indigenous artifact of such significance has been returned to Brazil, he said.
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