Paulinho
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Kracke, Waud H.
setName: label: See more items in
content: Waud H. Kracke papers
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content: Waud H. Kracke papers / Series 1: Field notes and research
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1967-circa 1973
label: Date
content: circa 1985-1990
label: Date
content: 2005-2008
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2017-12, Subseries 1.2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The material in sub-series (1.2) is arranged alphabetically.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This sub-series relates to the Parintintin informant Paulinho (alternately named Idjet, Ijet, Paulinho Neves or Paulinho Neves Parintintin). The material in this sub-series includes interviews and annotated interview notes; stories and myths; transcripts; and notebooks.

Paulinho was a chief of the Parintintin in the Ipixuna Valley and was crucial in mediating the relationship between the Parintintin and the SPI (Indian Protection Service, the precursor to FUNAI) for over 20 years. He provided Kracke with much of the latter's knowledge of Parintintin myth and cosmology. According to Kracke, "Paulinho became one of my best teachers in the study of Parintintin culture and society. And the drawings he made for me opened a vision of the Parintintin view of the universe" (Box 85, "An Amazonian World through Paulinho's Eye," Series 2: Writings). In 2004-2005, Kracke proposed a study and book on Paulinho entitled "An Amazonian World through Paulinho's Eye/O mundo Parintintin por Paulinho (Ijet)," which was never completed. This proposal, and the presentation built of this idea, provide valuable context for Kracke's relationship with the chief, storyteller, and artist (see Boxes 85 and 119).

The material in this sub-series overlaps with material in sub-series (1.3): Interviews and informants, but was kept separate by the archivist to reflect Kracke's own organization of these materials. Additional interviews with Paulinho can be found in that sub-series. Photographs, photocopies, and digital scans of Paulinho's drawings can be found in sub-series (1.5): Artwork.