Congratulations to Tiffany Shellam for the publication of Meeting the Waylo: Aboriginal Encounters in the Archipelago (UWA Publishing, 2020). The book is a history of story-making about the experiences of Migeo, Boongaree and Bundle, three Indigenous Australians who were intermediaries on board maritime expeditions in the early nineteenth century. By following the footsteps and fingerprints of the archivists as well as explorers, Shellam reminds us that the archive is never a neutral storehouse for history.