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Woven Embera Masks - Anteater
$268.00
Code: IEWM013
Size: 14” long x 8”wide (36 x 20 cms)
Said to be inspired by the carved wooden masks and effigies of local fauna and forest spirits fashioned by their 'jaibana' (traditional medicine men) inside the healing enclosure, Embera women - whose media is weaving, not wood carving - are creating these wonderfully inspired forest beings. Some are obvious what animals they depict (as this piece is: a rather stylized anteater), while other masks are not as obvious regarding the precise mammalian, or avian type. Then some of these masks seem to be altogether fantastical creatures of tribal myth, or artisan’s imagination. The raw materials employed (split, dried and naturally dyed wild 'chunga' and 'naguala' palm fronds) and the weaving technique are offshoots of the traditional indigenous 'hosig di' baskets of the Darien, Panama.
Size: 14” long x 8”wide (36 x 20 cms)
Said to be inspired by the carved wooden masks and effigies of local fauna and forest spirits fashioned by their 'jaibana' (traditional medicine men) inside the healing enclosure, Embera women - whose media is weaving, not wood carving - are creating these wonderfully inspired forest beings. Some are obvious what animals they depict (as this piece is: a rather stylized anteater), while other masks are not as obvious regarding the precise mammalian, or avian type. Then some of these masks seem to be altogether fantastical creatures of tribal myth, or artisan’s imagination. The raw materials employed (split, dried and naturally dyed wild 'chunga' and 'naguala' palm fronds) and the weaving technique are offshoots of the traditional indigenous 'hosig di' baskets of the Darien, Panama.