| Resumo: | This article describes the current cooperation between Presença Karajá, aninterdisciplinary research project that maps and analyzes collections of Karajá dolls(ritxoko) in museum collections, and the GRASSI Museum for Ethnology in Leipzig,Germany, part of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD). Together, theworking group analyzed the collection of ritxoko embedded in other Iny-Karajámaterials, gathered and documented by Dr. Fritz Krause (1881-1963) in 1908. Basedon Krause’s published works from his expedition, Iny-Karajá anthropological contributions, insights from Iny-Karajá representatives, and the ritxoko themselves, the working group investigated the provenance, ethnography, and anthropological data together, gathering valuable research results for the collection history as well asfor the Iny-Karajá themselves. Presença Karajá offered the Museum an opportunity to enhance the history of its collections as well as to support the goals of what the Museum calls “immaterial restitution”: strengthening Indigenous cultures and granting them greater sovereignty over their heritage.
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