This study aims to investigate the process of musealization of ethnographic collection placed
in the Museum Paraense Emílio Goeldi (MPEG), named Lauro Sodré (1897), Henri Coudreau
(1898), Frei Gil Vilanova (1902) and Koch-Grünberg (1905). Not only centered in the
collector’s protagonism but comprehending the collection processes as a polysemic practice,
this research intent to comprehend its role in social and political context, interests of the
museums, their scientific agenda, trajectory and conceptions of the producing communities
and collectors, the collaboration and circulation networks on Amazon region.. The four
collections are relevant to Curt Nimuendaju Technical Reserve Ethnographic Collection at the
Goeldi Museum due to their acquisitions during a restructuring and reorganization period, and
also, in a way, represent three distinct contexts of collecting indigenous artefacts in Amazon
at the end of 19th century and 20th century beginning, led by a French explorer, a Dominican
missionary, and a German ethnologist. Their study certainly allows us to analyse how
different political and social contexts, religious, philosophical, cultural, scientific thoughts
and the relationships between indigenous peoples and collectors acted in objects selection and
rejection that make up the aforementioned collections.
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