supported archaeological research in the Amazon for over a hundred years. It has
also supported Denise Schaan's research on Marajo Island since 1999. The
Museum has provided personnel, equipment and laboratories, as well as cared for
the collections and restoration of artifacts collected in the field.
Barbosa carefully
assemble a funerary urn
in the restoration lab.
sherds and record the
information on a list
Volunteer, sketches ceramic
sherds for study
of a vessel that was found
badly broken underneath a
funerary urn in M-17
