Masked Histories: Turtle Shell Masks and Torres Strait Island People Publisher / John Wiley & Sons many adventures

many adventures

concealment and shadow

whether they live in the northern or southern hemisphere

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while pointing us towards a saner individual and collective future

Masked Histories: Turtle Shell Masks and Torres Strait Island People Publisher / John Wiley & Sons many adventuresMasked Histories celebrates the remarkable Torres Strait Islander turtle shell masks that were taken or traded by Europeans throughout the nineteenth century. Displayed as curiosities or art in museums and galleries around the world, the Islander knowledges they held were silenced. Delving into old stories from both Islanders and the foreigners who had travelled to the region, Lui Chivizhe reanimates the masks with their Islander meaning and purpose