These hand-knotted satchels are made by the Matsés women from the communities along the Jivari Valley. Made of chambira palm fibre; a large and spiny palm native to the Amazon rainforest, the striped patterns are created using natural bark or seed pigments.
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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