'A bag of salt was a beginning. Tribal tattooed hands from another time, yet present beside me, reached in to a handbag and placed a small, well-travelled satchel on the table. We all stared at it. Her voice, an instrument of belonging, invited us to pinch some.' (Introduction)
Epigraph: ‘Above all, it (whakapapa) is a notion of time which recognises the interconnectedness of all things.’ –Moana Jackson. ‘He manawa whenua’. Paper presented at He Manawa Whenua. Hamilton, 2013, p.59