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Tiago Rogero in Rio de Janeiro

‘A beacon of hope’: Indigenous people reunited with sacred cloak in Brazil

a red feather cloak photographed from four different angles
The cloak will be publicly unveiled at a ceremony on Thursday. Photograph: Niels Erik Jehrbo | Nationalmuseet

The scene resembled a funeral: seven Indigenous people, overcome with tears, gathered around a loved one resting in a coffin-like wooden box.

Instead of grief, however, it was a moment of celebration: the long-awaited reunion between the Tupinambá de Olivença people and a sacred feathered cloak that was taken from Brazil at least 335 years ago.

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