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The Way Home bags-and-wallets overly positive understanding of theirDavid Neel was an infant when his father, a Kwakwakawakw artist, died, triggering events that would separate him from the traditions of his homeland on Vancouver Island. When the aspiring photographer saw a mask carved by an ancestor in a Texas museum twenty five years later, the encounter inspired him to return home and follow in his fathers footsteps. Drawing on memory, legend, and his own art, Neel recounts his struggle to reconnect with his