Masked Histories: Turtle Shell Masks and Torres Strait Island People Publisher / John Wiley & Sons One of the trickiest tasks

One of the trickiest tasks we ever face is that of working out who we really are

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Masked Histories: Turtle Shell Masks and Torres Strait Island People Publisher / John Wiley & Sons One of the trickiest tasksMasked 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