"Ngaitesare listening". The Sound Heritage of the Magütá Ethnographic Museum of Mocagua: An Experience from Lullabies

In this article, we narrate our experience of archiving, digitization and socialization of the sound heritage of the Mag & uuml;t & aacute; Ethnographic Museum of Mocagua (MEMC) during the years 2022-2023. Thus, we present the creation and management of the MEMC by Abel Santos Angarita, the sections that compose it, and its material and sound heritage. Regarding the latter, we detail the non-indigenous and Mag & uuml;t & aacute; researchers that made up its collection of 130 cassettes. On the other hand, we propose that MEMC is an Amazonian indigenous museum in the Amazon Trapeze we criticize and overcome the still-present colonialism in the Amazonian museums of the region. This is grounded in how concepts such as curatorship and museographic object are understood and practiced from the mag & uuml;t & aacute; ontology that shapes MEMC. Finally, from notions such as nanat & uuml; 'owner' and ngaite 'spirit' we explain the sonorous ontology that surrounds the voices of the mag & uuml;t & aacute; grandfathers and grandmothers who shared their words and lullabies.