"We are facing a time when history is being revised. I see the return of the cloak as the beginning of a process that has everything to establish protocols for access to countless sacred pieces for us, Indigenous people, both inside and outside Brazil," Guajajara said during the event.
"For us, the Tupinambá people from all over Brazil, it represents a return to our culture, restoration of the demarcation of our territory, not only physical but culturally," Anápuàka Tupinambá tells The Art Newspaper.
"The cloak should have never come to the National Museum. It should never have come to Brazil now," says Anápuàka.
The artefact is believed to have been taken to Europe by the Dutch around 1644, before they were expelled from Northeastern Brazil by Portuguese colonisers.
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