This hand-carved work comes from the Iskonawa community of Chachibai in the Ucayali region, near the Callería river. These arrows are a smaller version of their traditional hunting arrows and are made with chonta palm wood and bamboo, finished with corn husk and designs which are painted with achiote seed.
We believe in long term relationship building with individuals and their communities who have consented to sharing their knowledge with us and the public. As multi-generational migrants, locals and foreigners, we seek to nurture a mutual understanding of the realities, ancestral and present, with our Indigenous collaborators through our practice in order to create didactic audio, visual and written representations of their ancestral knowledge for the benefit of the Indigenous people. Below is an open work of this documentation.
Photography: Davis Torres / Tui Anandi / Mike van Kruchen
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