Curating Culture: The Case of The Ethnographic Museum at Chichico Rumi

Abstract

Chichico Rumi is a Napo Kichwa village located approximately 30 minutes from Tena by bus. The village is slightly off the main road, immediately past the local school, named “9 de Octrubre.” Villagers of Chichico Rumi, as is the case for all the villages in the area, farm small plots cleared in the remnants of the rainforest; there they grow yucca, plantains, and maize, both for food, and to sell at the market in Tena. They also raise chickens, pigs, and fish and have begun a construction of a community fish farm.