スミソニアン博物館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (スミソニアン博物館Instagram)「Nearly six feet tall, this headdress is made of palm and reeds, and decorated with feathers of birds found in the Amazon rainforest. The name of the headdress, “ijasó,” comes from a fish found in Brazil’s Araguaia River. Ijasó headdresses, often made in pairs and worn with accompanying rattles, represent spirits called by shamans to visit the Karajá people. In ceremonies marking the summer and dry season, the ijasó spirits join the community in dancing and singing festivals. According to Karajá oral tradition, the Karajás’ first ancestors came from the river and those very ijasó fish. Because they make their homes along the Araguaia River valley in the lowlands of the eastern Amazon, fish are an essential element of Karajá culture. Due to deforestation and the expansion of industrial agriculture into the Karajá people’s traditional lands, the Araguaia River suffers from erosion. Erosion is one of many factors limiting the supply of fish, which can cause communities to migrate elsewhere in search of food security and economic opportunity. Today is Amazon Day, a celebration of the region, home to more than 33 million people, including Indigenous communities such as the Karajá and multitudes of plant and animal species—some still unknown to science. The Amazon helps regulate global carbon dioxide levels, essential for life on Earth. Indigenous communities around the world are often the first to experience the negative consequences of climate change and environmental harm—and the first to raise the alarm and lead sustainability efforts. For many, these changes lead to losses of traditional ways of knowing, native languages, cultural and spiritual practices, and much more. This mask and the rattles that go with it are on view in the exhibition “Infinity of Nations” at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City, as well as online. __ Karajá ijasò mask, ca. 1930–1960. Bananal Island, Tocantins State, Brazil. Babassu palm, reed, macaw feathers, Amazon parrot feathers, roseate spoonbill feathers, harpy eagle feathers, beeswax, cotton cordage. 170 x 53 x 22 cm. Purchased from Frank C. Napier. 23/2000」9月6日 0時49分