Coleção Nássaro Nasser: a cerâmica decorada no acervo arqueológico do Museu Câmara Cascudo, UFRN

Abstract

This work presents the characteristics and the decorative variability of the archaeological pottery belonging to the Nássaro Nasser Collection. The collection was formed from the scientific activity of the archaeologist Nássaro de Souza Násser, at the Instituto de Antropologia (Institute of Anthropology), currently the Museu Câmara Câmara Cascudo / UFRN, in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution and the Programa Nacional de Pesquisas Arqueológicas/PRONAPA (National Archaeological Research Program) in the 1960s and 1970s. For this, were performed a bibliographic review; list of the pottery material; formulation of records to collect information; photographic register; material analysis; cataloging information using records; and identification of the decoration of each pottery and pottery fragment with virtual decal of the internal and external surfaces using photographs