Crozier ships replica of indigenous cultural heritage site using sea freight
Sustainable sea-freight shipping to bring the full-size replica of the cave 5,000 miles from Madrid to Brazil
The Sacred Cave of Kamukuwaká is returning home with the support of Iron Mountain and Crozier Fine Arts
Iron Mountain’s Living Legacy initiative and Crozier entered into an exciting partnership with the People’s Palace Projects (PPP) last year.
PPP is a nonprofit organization dedicated to exploring the transformative potential of creativity and partnering with marginalized communities to effect change. Through our Living Legacy Initiative, we collaborate with community partners to safeguard and share cultural heritage information and artifacts. This initiative plays a vital role in preserving the sacred Cave of Kamukuwaká and narrating the history of the Xingu Territory people, the inaugural Indigenous territory protected in Brazil.
A full-size replica of a listed Brazilian cultural heritage site, destroyed in 2018, will be delivered via Crozier’s sea-freight shipping service in May to an Indigenous territory in the Brazilian Amazon basin. This is its final destination after a 5,000-mile journey from Madrid, Spain.
According to the Gallery Climate Coalition, “transporting an artwork by air has, on average, sixty times more climate impact than moving it the same distance by sea.” By using Crozier’s sea-freight shipping service, we’re supporting our ongoing sustainability commitments - as well as those of our partners.
The Living Legacy Initiative funded the planning, consultation with Indigenous partners, and building a cultural and monitoring center that will also house the cave replica when it arrives in the territory. The center is being built according to sustainable architecture principles, using bio-construction techniques and local Indigenous labor. The building will have solar panels, internet service, an office, and storage spaces to enable the Wauja people to monitor the territory and the Batovi River using drones, cameras, and GPS. Once complete, the cultural and monitoring center will be open to visitors from all over the world.
The ancient cave is considered “a book of learning” holding Indigenous beliefs, customs, and ancestral history, which is the most sacred historical site for 16 Indigenous Tribes in the Xingu. The facsimile, built by a world-class studio Factum Foundation, in collaboration with the Wauja People and People’s Palace Projects, will be installed in the newly built 150 square meters Cultural and Monitoring Center in the Ulupuwene village. It will enable younger generations to learn about their otherwise lost history, and the old ones to pay tribute to their ancestors.
The sacred cave of Kamukuwaká is an indigenous archaeological cultural heritage site in the Amazon and was listed as a cultural heritage site in 2016 by IPHAN (Brazil’s National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage).
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