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natural! Count the waste.
In a small cave in Altamira,
Spain, and another in Lascaux,
France, paintings scribed from
charcoal and sienna-colored
clay, from decayed reeds and
plants, dance in our imagi-
nation with revelations we
can only guess at. Who were
these people, our ancestors,
our progenitors? They are us.
We have come to recognize a
lot, and yet, we know so little.
But these paintings from tens
of thousands of years ago of
bison and horses, gazelles and
human hand prints, inspire us
to the marrow of our bones.
a week. Stoked to tempera-
tures of nearly 2,400 degrees.
Cooled, unloaded and, because
of their trial by fire, those pots
emerge precious from the kiln.
In say, 1,000 years, how
many will remain? Well, we
pray for the best, just as our
ancestors did. And hope.
Dreams piggyback on these
two human aspirations, prayer
and hope.
Meanwhile, the Maori
inspire. They bring us their art.
They share their culture. They
indulge in a rare brotherhood
and sisterhood. They offer this
and more to Clatsop Commu-
nity College, to the hillside
kiln, and to the potters.
Back at the kiln
‘We are all one people’
It is October. A community
of potters prepares to fire the
Anagama kiln on the Row-
lands’ property. For months,
they have gathered cord-loads
of firewood; cut it, split and
stacked it; allowed the faggots
to dry.
With the Maori participat-
ing, the kiln will be fired for
There’s something special
and unexpected about indig-
enous cultures. Their writers
and artists and teachers inspire
us to often forgotten ways of
life; to an inside perspective
of nature and art; to a living
touch that gallops beyond the
accumulation of greenbacks.
Once, we were all indige-
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DAVID CAMPICHE PHOTOS
Maori at the Anagama kiln,
gathered in celebration.
nous, bound to the land of our
ancestors. Perhaps that is why
so much of what remains of
indigenous cultural traditions
speaks to us on a deep level. It
reminds us of our own faded
connections.
We catch fragments. The
Maori offer us song, prayers,
a language ancient but new
to our ears, born of a peculiar
devotion to ancient stories and
music and deeply felt art.
They speak to and for the
elders, and just as frequently,
the old ways.
Finally, there is this: We
are all one people, and destiny
haunts our footsteps. CW
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