Masked Histories: Turtle Shell Masks and Torres Strait Island People Publisher / John Wiley & Sons and will appeal to children

and will appeal to children

Bestselling author and internationally renowned artist Sally Morgan teams up with Ezekiel Kwaymullina for a story celebrating country

concealment and shadow

until the fresh winds of modernism and demands for a unique Australian style took over in the 20th century

Masked Histories: Turtle Shell Masks and Torres Strait Island People Publisher / John Wiley & Sons and will appeal to childrenMasked 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