Ute Behrend used the fallen tree on the fieldsite for an diptych titled "Sleeping girl and feather on red ground" - part of her work series "Bear Girls".
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Some Place in North America or Canada there is a tribe of indians that dress up their pubescent girls in large bearskins. A little offside the Indian village the girls live together with other girls of the same age, beeing well protected from the glances of grown-ups and boys by wearing the bearskins. They are even advised to move especially dull and clumsy - just as bear would. This well protected atmosphere allows them to mature untroubled and undistubed. They will determine the point in time when they will eventually take off their bearskin all by themselves. From that point on the girls will become part of the community of grown-up indian women. Further more indian girls of that tribe may decide freely wether they want to become a brave. Not many decide to, but time and again some did.
When I recently told a friend of this, she was certain she had heard of this tribe before.
As it happens I made it all up by myself. (Text by Ute Behrend)
