“…The use of drawing as a method for research with Amerindian peoples requires to understand the historical relations and circumstances in which Euro-American materials and techniques came to be known by Amazonian collectives and how they are being used, acknowledged, or avoided (COLLET, 2013;GOW, 1990;MACK, 2012). The presence of Western materials such as the bible and journals, adding to the consecutive events that determined the suppression of native groups by colonial presence, such as slavery, violence, epidemics, and other colonial domination examples, are reflected on the way indigenous groups may or may not avail and integrate Western-based knowledge systems, and by extension their symbolic material culture.…”