ABSTRACT
The chapter examines practices of collecting and presenting native South American objects from the perspective of the curator currently in charge of the non-European collection at the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb. The focus is on the collection gathered by brothers Mirko and Stevo Seljan in the early twentieth century, mostly in Brazil, as well as their records of encounters with Indigenous peoples and the ways in which the topic is approached through the activities of the Ethnographic Museum. The chapter presents the curator’s dilemmas about the possibilities of decolonizing the museum in the specific context of the periphery of European colonialism.
