The house mark — a sealed scroll beside a lit candle
Honored Ancestors

A House of Names.

Zuri · The Walkthrough

Free. Your Member Number is minted the moment you sign — your Purse of Seals opens beside it, and the Steward’s Card follows.

I already hold a Number

The Opening

The doors of the Archive open October the Third.

At noon, by the world’s clock. Every Name signed before that day stands among the first.

—days
—hours
—minutes
Already kept

The lives the house keeps

Each one written, kept, and given an address that does not move. Open any of them now.

Seated statue of HatshepsutHatshepsutKemet · c. 1507 – 1458 BCE Queen Nzinga of Ndongo and MatambaQueen NzingaNdongo & Matamba · 1583 – 1663 Portrait of Harriet TubmanHarriet TubmanThe Diaspora · c. 1822 – 1913

More than a thousand lives already kept

Free to keep. Ten dollars keeps ten moments, each at an address you can hand to anyone.

Walk among the Names Take Your Number

Walking asks nothing of you. Your Number is free, and drawn once.