Meet the masks by the Kamënts̈á indigenous people from the Sibundoy valley, in the department of Putumayo – Colombia, which integrate the feminine and masculine parts that inhabit us, as well as the family, humanity and nature.

They are the heirs of the marriage between a star man and a human woman. The masks also tell us about a people who have survived, with resilience and love, the great challenges that colonization, mercantilism and inequality brought with them, besides their founding myths and the legends of their culture.

These people are making an immense effort and a great job to recover their traditions and their language, which were in danger of going extinct due to colonization, which tried, unsuccessfully, to crush their indigenous spirit. Each one is made completely by hand and takes around four months to be finished. They need a minimum of two thousand cuts during the carving process to portray one of their powerful human gestures, as well as an average of 36.000 millimetric beads which, placed skillfully one by one, gift us all the devotion of the master artisans, along with the stories that they transmit us with such love.