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Cacoal/RO – Suruís people history, from the time of the contact with the whites, to the current days, it has been portrayed in pictures, by the plastic artist Adlanes Cristóvão Suruí. With ability in the painting art in oil on screen, she is devoted mainly to show the primitive habits of the Indians. “In each picture I expose something unique of them, as the way of making ceramic”, she said.
Suruís people choice was not by chance. The wife of the leader Almir Suruí, Adlanes lives together with the indigenous habits for 14 years. I portray the Suruís, because they are people that I know “, she said.
The work of Adlanes pleases mainly who comes from outside. Exposed in the Non Organization Government (NOG) Kanidé, in the capital of the State, the pictures are mainly acquired for environmentalist and foreign researchers. “They like and take the pictures home “, Adlanes says.
In spite of the satisfaction for the approval of her work, Adlanes worries when seeing that it is further the possibility of
materialization of her project to gather a good number of pictures and to do a great exhibition. ” Here people dont matter a lot, but outside the indigenous culture it is worth “, she said.
The historical registrations show that the Suruí people were contacted in 1969. At that time there was a population of approximately 5 thousand people. A measles epidemic appeared after the contact, it would have reduced them to 290. Today they would be about 1.100 people, residents in villages of Cacoal town.