November 6, 2016 Todo Village of Waerebo, Mangarrai Flores 

observational findings untitled (lay bare) flores

September 3, 2021, Laid bare by Shinnecock Family Flock, gallus gallus, and where I found them in my open air studio, these pottery fragments picture “scenes” and "cultural objects” - such as the painted roof ornament atop a round-house resembling those that I documented in the homes of Mangarrai chiefs in the villages of Waerebo and Todo, on the Island of Flores, Indonesia where I visited in 1998 and again in 2016 during travels for a commission by The U.S. State Department, Art in Embassies for The fabric of time and space open air studio Shinnecock Hills spacetime. (see below)

These shards, identified by Shinnecock Elder, Peter Running Deer Silva, Life Long Traditional Chief of the Hassanamisco Indian Reservation and descendants of the historic Awasamaug Leaders of the Nipmuc Tribal Nation, were transported by Shinnecock Whalers circa, 1891 - 1948.

It was by chance and mysterious that I found these antique fragments in my open air studio initially unearthed by Shinnecock Family Flock members, picturing a remote Indigenous culture from the other side of the world, that few others have, nor are familiar with these First Peoples.

Hope Sandrow with Chief Yeremias Tunjuk. Yeremias told me that this “ornament” atop the roundhouse (right)  marks the Chief’s roundhouse.

Todo Village former Chief, Yeremias Tunjuk wearing the eyeglasses I sent him in front of roundhouses (Nov 6, 2016) in Flores, Indonesia.

My travels for research commissioned by Art in Embassy (2016) for the Installation The Fabric of Time and Space.  November 6, 2016 Todo Village Mangarrai Flores