Archipelago Notes

Stories, research and living knowledge from Kei and the wider eastern archipelago.

A cultural journal from the Kei Islands — Nuhu Evav.

Here, we gather origin stories, oral histories, the Evav language, ancestral navigation, the great meti tides, reef knowledge, craftsmanship, music and the living traditions that continue to shape the archipelago.

These notes are written from the islands, through encounters, fieldwork, family memories and the voices of the people who carry this knowledge. Some sto