#ritxoko

Boneca Karajá (ritxoko), estilo tradicional, pertencente ao acervo coletado por Fritz Krause em 1908 para o Museu Etnográfico de Leipzig.

Boneca Karajá coletada pelo Professor Herbert Baldus

Código: KA-0116

Fotógrafo/autor: Mario Baldi

"All human beings give toys to their children. The Carajá women of the Araguaya River make clay dolls for their youngsters. In former times they were preponderantly simple human shapes – a body without arms, wide hips, and spindly legs and feet. The children play with them by sticking them in the soft, white, omnipresent sand on the great sandbanks where the Carajás live in the summer. But the few whites who occasionally visited the domain of the Carajás found these gaily painted clay figurines beautiful and exotic, and soon they began to be traded. The Indian women then proceeded to fire these breakable figurines, in order to make them more durable. They also began to create new shapes.

In the course of some decades, they have gone through various phases of artistic creation. They have made by turns figurines which were reflections of their tribal myths, likenesses from their dreams, and embodiment of their ideas. There were all kinds of expressions of human pain and joy. But besides that, they have always used clay to make for the children and curious whites representations of the animal world of their native region. These figurines are primitive, some of them are lumpy, but all have the characteristics appropriate to the animal species being portrayed, despite their imperfections of form and decoration.

119 Jaguar

120 Armadillo

121 Jaguar made of wax with straw ornaments

122 Toad

123 Heron

124 Bittern

125 Gray heron"

Mulher com um jacaré

por Myixa & Mahuederu Karajá, 2011

"Boneca karajá, Karajá, 1967. Boneca Karajá representando cena ritual sobre base retangular." Acervo do Museu do Índio. Doação da linguista Charlotte Emmerich (1938-2020), do Museu Nacional

"Boneca Karajá representando cena ritual sobre base retangular. O conjunto exibe duas figuras femininas, de pé, diante de dois seres sobrenaturais (figuras de aruanã), de pé. As figuras ostentam elementos características do povo Karajá tal como corte de cabelo, pintura facial e corporal."

"Fig. 32. Cena de funeral Karajá. 15x18 cm. Peça de Koanadiki de 1959. Col. Fenelon Costa. Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro."

"Fig. 33. Cena de choro ritual ibru junto à sepultura de morto. Peça de Myixa, 14x17.5cm, de 1997. Col. Particular."

"Fig. 34. Sepultamento no cemitério da aldeia de Santa Isabel do Morro, março de 2010."

"Através das ritxoko, as ceramistas contam a história do povo Karajá, as atividades da vida cotidiana, e os momentos importantes na vida social Karajá, como nascimento, namoro, morte, ritos, entre muitos outros aspectos."

"Fritz Krause ao descrever os caracteres morfológicos dessa população do Araguaia diz que 'as nádegas providas de rica adiposidade constituem um elemento ideal da beleza dos índios'."