InDigit | Collaborative Digital Repositories with the Kamayurá People

InDigit explores how digital technologies can be used to rethink the stewardship of ethnographic collections in more inclusive and ethical ways. Developed in close collaboration with Kamayurá representatives from the Upper Xingu (Brazil), the project focuses on the Kamayurá collection held at Portugal’s National Museum of Ethnology (MNE).

The aim is to co-design a prototype for a digital repository that reflects both institutional and Indigenous perspectives. By examining contrasting approaches to classification, access protocols, care practices and temporalities, the project seeks to foster a shared digital space shaped by multiple ways of knowing. It will also result in a handbook of Kamayurá recommendations for managing their collections in both physical and digital formats.

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