Indigenous technology restored: Two men, a duck decoy provide colorful story | News

Sometimes life is like geometry, making things come full circle and causing the lines of people’s lives to intersect for a greater purpose.

This is what appears to have happened in the case of an ancient Paiute artifact in the shape of a duck that was removed from tribal homelands and repatriated back, and the lives of two local men whose work is not only helping to restore tribal knowledge, but also to impart it far and wide beyond Indigenous communities.

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