Description: Yanomami Carring Basket- Horizontal waves Design: horizontal wavy lines Materials: Vegetable coloring, majagua fiber (Anaxagorea acuminata), mamure plant (Heteropsis spruceana) Size: diameter 31 cm hight 33.5 cm This is a beautiful carrying basket (Wii) of the Yanomami. It is made of mamure palm fiber (Heteropsis spruceana), colored with a plant color called onoto (Bixa orellana) and then decorated with charcoal with various geometric designs. The designs appear as waves on this basket. It is an authentic basket made by the women of Yanomami tribe living in Venezuela. Yanomami means “human being”. The Yanomami are located in the Amazon rainforests of Brazil and Venezuela. The Yanomami are an indigenous tribe, which is made up of subdivisions of Indian villages that live in seclusion. Each household contains one to six family compartments and live together in a larg circular structure called a Shabono. Social life is organized around kinship relationships, descent from ancestors, and marriage. They are hunters and gatherers and tend small garden plots. The Yanommami are believed to be the most primitive, culturally intact people in the world and the last culture to come into contact with the modern world. The women weave and decorate flat baskets and carrying baskets, which are carried by a strap around the forehead. Red berries called onoto are used to dye the baskets and to paint their bodies. Their baskets are often decorated with dots, circles, waves and lines by using masticated charcoal pigment.
Price: 325 USD
Location: Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
End Time: 2025-01-14T14:56:47.000Z
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Brand: Handmade
Pattern: Woven
Type: Storage Basket
Color: Beige
Style: American
Original/Reproduction: Original
Country/Region of Manufacture: Venezuela
