Amazon
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of 388 objects associated with the Amazonian region in Guyana and Brazil. These date from 1873 to 2001 and represent the Karaja, Wai Wai, Wapashana, Gaviao, Jivaro, Shipibo, Macushi, Carib and Arawak peoples. This collection contains ceramics, textiles, body ornaments, costume, tools, domestic artefacts, furniture, furnishings, and basketwork, coconut and gourd containers. It also includes paintings, souvenirs, crafts, ritual and religious equipment, smoking paraphernalia, photographs, lithographs, hunting equipment, musical instruments, and war and dance clubs. The collection consists primarily of material associated with four major collections: Miss AT Andersons collection of Carib material from the coast, donated in 1948; Mr J Brown’s collection of Wai Wai artefacts from the upper Essequibo-Mapuera region, purchased in 1953; the former Governor of Guyana, Sir Gordon Lethem’s collection, which includes a photographic archive of the Wai Wai, Wapishana and Patamona peoples, acquired in 1963; and the Evangelical Union of South America’s collection of body ornaments, costume and textiles of the Karaja people, donated in 1974. The Amazon basin culture is defined by the Amazon river, the second longest in the world, and the diverse habitat of its rainforest, which comprises nearly 40 per cent of the South American continent.
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