These are traditional handwoven bags from the Matsigenka called 'Tsagi' and are hand spun from native cotton. The iconographical designs that are woven into the cloth are symbols of their cultural identity whose colors are achieved from natural ingredients such as 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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