The tribe hadn’t had camera equipment until the sixties. Any photos taken prior to that time were taken by outsiders, who possessed them, put them on display, but had no awareness of the stories attached to them, or the people in them. The photos were stripped of all context, meant to symbolize some idea of the exotic other. This went for recordings as well. Of their language, their songs, their traditions. Made by white visitors, and taken away from the people to whom they would matter most. This had become her life’s work. To locate all sorts of items, to reunite them with their stories and
...more