Doña Oscarina, master ceramicist, documented Indigenous knowledge along the Tiquié River
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Doña Oscarina Caldas Azevedo, a Desana master ceramicist and pioneering Indigenous environmental researcher from Brazil's upper Rio Negro region, spent her lifetime documenting and teaching traditional ecological knowledge—cultivating 18 varieties of cassava, recording crop cycles, rainfall patterns, and community practices—ensuring that younger generations could preserve and expand Indigenous environmental monitoring and ceramic traditions across the Uaupés basin.
Doña Oscarina passed away on July 4, 2026; this is a memorial reflecting on her legacy and ongoing work.
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