People of the Great Rivers

This small exhibition presents the life and art of the indigenous inhabitants of the Amazon in the second half of the 19th century. During his journey upstream along the Orinoco and Amazon rivers, the traveler Enrique Stanko Vráz (1860–1932) encountered more than 20 tribes and brought back around 500 objects. This exhibition showcases the most interesting among them: It focuses on the life of the inhabitants on the border of the Venezuelan and Colombian Amazon, which remains one of the most remote areas of tropical South America. It presents rare rainforest ceramics and musical instruments of the Baniwa, basketry of the Yekuana, and feathered ornaments of the Guahibo. From the western, Peruvian, and Ecuadorian Amazon, you can see remarkable garments of the Maijuna and Wampis, weapons from the Ucayali basin, and reproductions of portraits of indigenous people.

Come and see some of the oldest examples of art and culture from the planet's largest tropical rainforest.

The series of short-term exhibitions presents interesting objects and collections from the extensive and unique holdings of the Náprstek Museum in two display cases.