These are traditional handwoven bags from the Matsigenka made from native cotton and cetico fibre. The 'Jempo' uses a hand-knotting technique with checkered patterns while the woven bag known as 'Tsagi' contains their iconographical designs, both are symbols of their cultural identity whose colors are achieved from natural ingredients as sanipanga leaves, bark pigments, and clay.
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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