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Basket Vessels - Geometric Flora and Fauna
$448.00
Code: IEWV009
Size: 7" x 4 1/2" (18 x 12cms)
The perfection in the semi-abstract flora/fauna design of this piece is mind boggling! Baskets created by 2 related tribes of the 'Darien Gap': the Embera and Wounaan. These women weavers are making, arguably, the finest traditional baskets in the world. At this level, this beautiful marvel of technique and design represents the apex of Wounaan basket making - an activity as old as ancestral memory itself.
Like most of these indigenous Darien rainforest baskets, the underside of the piece features a beautiful design resolution: a kaleidoscopic mandala, on the base of the piece (decorating tip: these basket vessels are best displayed on a glass shelf in order to appreciate the incredible work on the underside!).
These impressive rainforest baskets are made by virtue of two key elements: the endemic, wild palm tree species that provide the young fronds that are split and are the basic structure of the baskets and of course the ancestral knowledge of the Native women of the Darien region expressed in the dyes obtained from their surroundings and the complex stitching techniques employed since time immemorial.
Size: 7" x 4 1/2" (18 x 12cms)
The perfection in the semi-abstract flora/fauna design of this piece is mind boggling! Baskets created by 2 related tribes of the 'Darien Gap': the Embera and Wounaan. These women weavers are making, arguably, the finest traditional baskets in the world. At this level, this beautiful marvel of technique and design represents the apex of Wounaan basket making - an activity as old as ancestral memory itself.
Like most of these indigenous Darien rainforest baskets, the underside of the piece features a beautiful design resolution: a kaleidoscopic mandala, on the base of the piece (decorating tip: these basket vessels are best displayed on a glass shelf in order to appreciate the incredible work on the underside!).
These impressive rainforest baskets are made by virtue of two key elements: the endemic, wild palm tree species that provide the young fronds that are split and are the basic structure of the baskets and of course the ancestral knowledge of the Native women of the Darien region expressed in the dyes obtained from their surroundings and the complex stitching techniques employed since time immemorial.