The Casa Borges Museum and the cultural heritage of the Balatiponé-Umutina people - Barra do Bugres, MT

Abstract

This article deals with the relationship between the Casa Borges Museum (MuCB), a municipal institution in the city of Barra do Bugres, in the interior of the state of Mato Grosso, and the cultural heritage of the Balatiponé-Umutina, indigenous people from the upper Paraguay River region. Several cultural activities were carried out at MuCB with their curatorship and participation, which brought great knowledge about the history of these people who, at the beginning of the 20th century, were attacked and expelled from their territory, and who, almost a hundred years later, recovered part of their ancestral knowledge through bibliographical research and in the collection of the National Museum of Indigenous Peoples in Rio de Janeiro. The research carried out with teachers from the Julá Paré school, in the Umutina village, to perform the exhibitions contributed to important material, documented today on the Casa Borges Museum website.