The Living Register
Procession Outlives the Empire
Each narrative band records a specific ritual — forty figures in order, preserving ceremonies ended three centuries ago.
Geometry Speaks Before Words
Tocapu grids encode social rank and cosmological order, borrowed from woven cloth and transferred to painted wood.
No Cup Stands Alone
Every kero exists as one half of a ritual pair — left and right vessels together complete the offering to ancestors.
Resin Carried the Memory
Mopa-mopa techniques survived colonial prohibition, carrying pre-Hispanic iconography into viceregal households.