Arte indígena : miçangas na cultura Ye'Kuana

Abstract

This work denominated "INDIGENOUS ART: BEADS IN CULTURA YE'KUANA", has as main objective to analyze the cultural relevance of the production of art in beads for Ye'kuana. For this, we have as specific objectives the following points: to identify the representations present in the iconographic elements in the Ye'kuana art; investigate the technical processes used in the production of the pieces in beads; and to analyze the cultural importance that the artifacts in beads assume in the daily life of this people. To this end, we followed the making of beads in a workshop that lasted four days in the city of Boa Vista, with a family group Ye'kuana, where most of them are from the community of Kuratanha, when they were in the city and also when we accompany their experiences in events, fairs, or places that present their relations around the pieces in beads. When dealing with the production of pieces in beads as indigenous art Ye'kuana, we use as reference Gell (2009), Franz Boas (2014), Berta Ribeiro (2000) and Els Lagrou (2010). Other authors that served as a subsidy for the research process were David M. Guss (1994, 1989), Karenina Andrade (2007), Elaine Moreira Laoriola (2003), Isabella Coutinho (2013), Henrique Gimenes (2014), Carvalho Ferreira (2016) and Koch-Grünberg (1981). At the end, we can see that the artistic production with the beads evidences the culture and the ethnic identity of the Ye'kuana People. And, also that, besides some pieces in beads, the present symbols have an agentiv character.