Stone AXE! To whom do they belong?

Abstract

This text approaches different experiences concerning the shared custody of indigenous artifacts in museums abroad and in Brazil. Discusses how the responsibility to preserve indigenous artifacts is transformed in the responsibility of collecting indigenous participants stories about the use of those objects. The lack of a more disseminate indigenous protocols in Brazil are already a reality in countries as the USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Following the recent developments of this debate, I tried to reflect on how the search for auto identity and auto-determination of ancestors folks posits within the indigenous contemporary art a new stake for placing some artists in the protagonism.