Somehow, it felt particularly special to be undertaking this activity with just women since, almost to a person, the Spanish conquistadors had been men. Now, women were handing back something that had been stolen from the Indigenous people by others who wanted to use their culture for their own gain. The threads of justice were coming together.
And apparently, the director had that same impression because she had invited a photographer and reporter to document the exchange. The reporter made sure to get the name of Ana’s village, a name I still couldn’t pronounce correctly and just refrained from saying for that reason, and the history of the quipus as Ana and Luz knew it.
The director informed us that the quipus would be on permanent display for as long as the village wanted to loan the
