"In a recent interview with the New Yorker Keyuk [a Selk'nam pop artist] explains the etymology of the group’s name: “The word ‘Selk’nam’ can mean ‘We are equal,’… though it can also mean ‘we are separate.’” Martin Gusinde’s camera captures the essence of this fundamental enigma of the ethnographic encounter."
-- Excerpt from my commentary for the New York Review of Books on 'The Lost Tribes of Tierra del Fuego', a collection of historical photographs by Austrian missionary-ethnographer Martin Gusinde