People
Ordinary people of Mu Aye Pu
This is a sketch, not a roll-call. The archive can show that people live here. It cannot yet introduce them by name.
Photographs show a sandbar landing, a dirt street of raised thatch houses, women and children in the road, people standing with a boat. SAGE International independently published rafts at the same village.14
A November 2017 community pack asked the village for carpenters, welders, cooks, housekeepers, gardeners and tour guides. That is a trace of an intended labour relationship, not proof that anyone was hired.2
Until consented oral histories exist, the honest public sentence is: the people who make Mu Aye Pu a place are visible in photographs and almost invisible in the paper foreigners left behind.