The work that is being developed is part of a larger project entitled: The Microregion of Oiapoque: An Ethno-Archaeological Study of the Cultures of the Cunani River, AP. The research began with the study of the Cunani or Aristé Collection belonging to the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, which was found on the banks of the Cunani River, more precisely, in an elevation called Monte Curú, in Amapá, by Emílio Goeldi and Aureliano Lima Guedes in 1895. Such collection, due to the quantity and quality of the ceramic material, found in very good conservation conditions inside a funerary well. At present we are working on a bibliographical survey and in particular on the reproduction of seventeen well preserved whole pieces. The study aims at a better understanding of the material in order to proceed to its morphological classification. For each piece, a drawing is made, highlighting the relationship between the parts essential to the classification: considering base diameter, mouth diameter, maximum diameter, minimum diameter, total height, and neck height. For each decorative motif, the technique used in their execution is emphasized. The drawings are done in ink and accompany the collection's description cards. Most of the pieces in the collection showed a deterioration of the decoration due to restoration and the passage of time - it should be remembered that the discovery of the Cunani Collection will complete a century soon. It was concluded that a great part of the pieces of this collection present red paint over beige engobe, and with burning some pieces present complete oxidation and incomplete oxidation. (CNPq).
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