| Sumario: | This article studies a group of photographs taken by French anthropologist Paul Rivet during the early 1900s in Archidona, Napo (Ecuadorian Amazon). The photographs, which portray people of Kichwa nationality, can be found today at the photographic library of the Quai Branly Museum in Paris. The object of this analysis is to question both the role of photography as well as the role of the archive the moment “a second ethnographic encounter” –in which descendants of the photographed people see the images– is produced. The article reflects upon the process that leads this type of images to become a part of the “visual archive” category (their history and valorization), and analyzes the way in which they come to acquire a different kind of value when they are removed from the archive and seen by a broader spectrum of people, becoming the catalysts for cultural revalorization processes.
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