Wounaan Peoples

Wounaan Panama Basket - Window Pattern - A3015

Regular price $150.00

Measures 3 1/2" high and 4" wide.

Panama Wounaan Baskets are characterized by their extraordinarily fine stitches and ornate details. In Wounmeu, the language of the Wounaan, there is a special name for fine traditional coil-construction palm-fiber baskets: hösig di. Expert weavers stitch silk-fine strands of the black palm they call chunga or werregue, richly colored with vegetal dyes, over coils of naguala palm.


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