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One of the main observers of the art of the Kadiwéu, an Indigenous people from South America, was French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss. In the early 20th century, he visited Indigenous villages in what is today Brazil’s Mato Grosso do Sul state and photographed the inhabitants’ traditional ceramics and elaborate body paintings made with ink from [……
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Brazil’s Kadiwéu force international debate about authorship of Indigenous art
Tomi Drews
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One of the main observers of the art of the Kadiwéu, an Indigenous people from South America, was French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss. In the early 20th century, he visited Indigenous villages in what is today Brazil’s Mato Grosso do Sul state and photographed the inhabitants’ traditional ceramics and elaborate body paintings made with ink from
