What can no longer be known

This chapter takes loss more literally, by leaving Pindiga for a while and turn to the archives and collections where the statues and sacred objects that remain are kept today – in the United States and Europe. They have only been taken away and thus been lost to their former owners in the era of decolonization, in the 1960s. The pain of this loss and disruption persists. But there is a lot that could not even be addressed anymore, such as knowledge still reflected in language structure but no longer embedded in discourse. The things that can no longer be known have been lost recently, are colonial outfall, it seems, and remain as subcutaneous pain.