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In 1817, German naturalists Johann Baptiste von Spix and Carl Friedrich Phillipp von Martius arrived in Brazil to collect natural specimens. The two scientists not only took back samples from the country’s fauna and flora. Their cargo also contained four indigenous children whom they planned to bring back to Munich and present to the Bavarian sovereign, Ludwig I. Only two of the children survived the transatlantic crossing: a young girl from the Miranha nation and a boy from the Juri people. Both children died shortly after their arrival in Europe. Their portraits, which originally appeared in Spix’s and Martius’s Travels to Brazil (1823) now hang in the Itaú’s Brasiliana Collection, where Brazilian author and historian Micheliny Verunschk saw them. The paintings, and the story behind them, inspired her novel O som do rugido da onça (2020).

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Decolonial Storytelling in Micheliny Verunschk’s O som do rugido da onça

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    2025年

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  • Leila Lehnen

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In 1817, German naturalists Johann Baptiste von Spix and Carl Friedrich Phillipp von Martius arrived in Brazil to collect natural specimens. The two scientists not only took back samples from the country’s fauna and flora. Their cargo also contained four indigenous children whom they planned to bring back to Munich and present to the Bavarian sovereign, Ludwig I. Only two of the children survived the transatlantic crossing: a young girl from the Miranha nation and a boy from the Juri people. Both children died shortly after their arrival in Europe. Their portraits, which originally appeared in Spix’s and Martius’s Travels to Brazil (1823) now hang in the Itaú’s Brasiliana Collection, where Brazilian author and historian Micheliny Verunschk saw them. The paintings, and the story behind them, inspired her novel O som do rugido da onça (2020).