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Flora and Fauna Design - Tropical Rainforest
$458.00
Code: IEWV010
Size: 4 1/1" x 6 1/4" (11 x 16 cms
Museum quality traditional basketwork created by two related tribes of the Darien region between Panama and Colombia, the Embera and Wounaan. These women weavers are making, arguably, the finest autochthonous baskets in the world.
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 these women of the Darien region expressed in the dyes obtained from their surroundings and the complex stitching techniques employed since time immemorial.
This particular beauty represents the apex of Wounaan basket making. Almost narrative and yet abstracted at the same time, this flora and fauna-inspired design is sublime with a geometric finishing flourish around the lip. Like most of these indigenous Darien rainforest baskets, the underside of the piece features a beautiful design resolution, a kaleidoscopic mandala, or some motif, as the hibiscus flower represented on the base of this piece.
Size: 4 1/1" x 6 1/4" (11 x 16 cms
Museum quality traditional basketwork created by two related tribes of the Darien region between Panama and Colombia, the Embera and Wounaan. These women weavers are making, arguably, the finest autochthonous baskets in the world.
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 these women of the Darien region expressed in the dyes obtained from their surroundings and the complex stitching techniques employed since time immemorial.
This particular beauty represents the apex of Wounaan basket making. Almost narrative and yet abstracted at the same time, this flora and fauna-inspired design is sublime with a geometric finishing flourish around the lip. Like most of these indigenous Darien rainforest baskets, the underside of the piece features a beautiful design resolution, a kaleidoscopic mandala, or some motif, as the hibiscus flower represented on the base of this piece.