Tesauro do acervo de Arte de Pesca Artesanal do Museu da Vila

Abstract

The present work is a sequence of studies and interventions of museo- logical research and documentation for the constitution of the Parnaíba

Delta Ecomuseum, Matrix Project of the Post-Graduate Program in Arts, Heritage and Museology, Federal University of Piauí-UFPI, which are all linked the Master’s projects. The Parnaíba Delta Ecomuseum is based on the concept of a network of poly-nuclear museums, territories and community-based museums. Its mission is to be an ecomuseum with

the functions of preservation, research, documentation, communica- tion of cultural and natural heritage, with operational and institutional

collections of the Parnaíba Delta Environmental Protection Area. The objective of this work was to create a thesaurus of artisanal fishing gear from one of the operational collections of the Vila da Musica, the first nucleus of the museum network of the Delta do Parnaíba Ecomuseum. The Vila’s Museum is located 100m from the edge of the village-Coqueiro da Praia neighborhood, where artisan fishermen are able to maintain an ancestral craft and know-how. The district belongs to the municipality of Luís Correia, one of the ten that are part of the Delta Environmental Protection Area of Parnaíba. In 2017, under the guidance of Professors Áurea Pinheiro and Cássia Moura, 15 students of the 3rd Class of the

Program carried out in this locality an exercise of participatory invento- ry of the ways of know-how of fishing gear. The techniques and methods

used were adapted from the National Inventory of Cultural Referenc- es (INRC), prepared by Arantes (2000) for the National Historical and

Artistic Heritage Institute; oral history and ethnography. As a result of the direct contact with the fishing community, we elaborated a set of

information, which in this work were reviewed, complemented and sys- tematized, giving them conceptual coherence through the elaboration

of a controlled vocabulary, the Artisanal Fishing Arts Thesaurus, and organized in a database, using the free software Tainacan, - created in a partnership between the Federal University of Goiás, Ministry of Culture and the Brazilian Institute of Museums. The collaborators of this research were fifteen artisanal fishermen, active, canoe owners and residents of the village-neighborhood. Based on the organization of the operational assets related to the living heritage of artisanal fishing gear, the Vila da

Vila team will promote access to information for the knowledge, recog- nition and safeguarding of this ancestral heritage, as well as the research

demands, exhibitions and educational actions of the Museum.