Katarina Pirak Sikku builds her own archive. Fills it with history from her own background. The oral stories she has heard as a child she fills with findings she has made in the state archives she has visited in recent years. 

 

She has drawn maps of her family's lands, the ones they own and travel through. Ownership is not a legal property but a spiritual property. The map marks cemeteries and landmarks that all carry a history, known to some, unknown to most. Growing up, Katarina Pirak Sikku got to know these places but also heard about places that were never allowed to be visited. These were sacred and significant places whose geographical locations were kept secret to protect them. If they were revealed, they would most certainly be visited by an ethnologist who dug them up and took everything of value to the museum. The better the protection, the less the places were mentioned, the more the place fell into oblivion. Also among those who had the task of guarding them. 

 

In another part of the artwork, Katarina Pirak Sikku depicts reindeer marks based on her own. Reindeer marks are unique incisions made in both reindeer's ears to show who owns the reindeer. The brand is personal and is often inherited within the family. By following reindeer marks back in history, Katarina Pirak Sikku began to wonder how they are connected. There were brands that resembled her own with only small simple differences. There seemed to be variations of each other with differences that could be described as grammatical or dialectal deviations. In her research, she saw how the marks could be followed through crossed family ties, through marriage and business. She saw how reindeer came and went and how relatives helped each other with illnesses and difficulties. The people behind the reindeer marks were made visible and through them a story is drawn about how people are woven together over time, with bands that today have fallen into oblivion.