Highly Collectible & Unique (DARIEN RAINFOREST ART, PANAMA)DARIEN RAINFOREST PANAMA MUSEUM QUALITY INTRICATE MINUSCULE WEAVING COLORFUL Museum Wounaan Indian Hosig Di Masterpiece Artist Basket Orchids Flowers Butterfly Designer Collector Decor A29

Item: 300A29

On special sale

This huge size for well over $10,000.00 elsewhere

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You are buying the Wounaan Hösig Di basket

(Seen on all the photos)

Collected in the Darién Rainforest of Panamá

We only buy the tightest, the best designs and the greatest color combinations

Museum quality by Magdalena

Silk stitch

This weaving perfection, tightness and minuteness cannot be found today, neither can the perfection of the design

Check Dominique Rice Oceania Store in Sun Sentinel Newspaper, Fort Lauderdale, for information on our collection and authentic art.

Unique Museum quality piece exceptional quality and detail and huge:

This is a very large and colorful basket with stylized motif of orchids, bird of paradise plants, butterflies and tropicals in bloom , leaves, intricate motifs and decorative band around the rim and gorgeous base, created by Magdalena. Absolutely perfect and so intricate and tight with a minute weave, museum quality artwork. Retail was $8,500.00 because of size and time it took to create, over 1 year. Compare for a lot more elsewhere! It is very large.

8,5" tall X11" wide X 35" all around, very large!

A Thread-like fiber material, harvested from the new shoots of the Chunga Palm, was used to create the outstanding minute weave above.

The Wounaan Indians of the Darien Rainforest of Panama are the finest weavers in the world. They construct a basket with weave is so tiny that it can contain liquids: the fiber used is the Chunga palm leaf (new shoot - also used to weave Panama hats-) only found in the Darien rainforest. Their intricate and minute motifs range from tropical flora and fauna to varied geometric patterns. Baskets are woven with a needle and can be compared to a textile, so minuscule is the weave.

The colors are obtained from natural vegetal dyes: roots, berries, herbs, leaves and even silt-fine mud. Master weavers have refined the silk-stitch or rib-stitch technique, working 60-90 or more thread-fine strands of chunga per inch in a extremely detailed and tedious tight stitching, and creating masterpieces that resemble a fine tapestry. Basket designs are a work of art so complex and intertwined that keeping the stitch-by-stitch ramblings of animals, flowers, butterflies, birds, insects in check is a difficult task that takes a tremendous amount of time. Some baskets can take up to 3 years to complete as a result.

The Indians believe that all plants and animals are related to each other, thus weavers seek the harmony of nature when creating baskets our of the nature around them, they capture the spirit of their world in their art which is museum quality.

The baskets we carry have the most minuscule and tightest weave available (baskets can even contain water), we only pick perfection, as well as the best designs to be found in these collector baskets, the finest in the world.

We have a wide variety of the best quality and motifs available in Wounaan baskets. We have sold them internationally, and to museums as well, because of their perfection and high quality.

This is a great price for this time consuming detailed masterpiece of hand woven art, the finest work: compare!

All our handcrafted or rare collector items come with pages and pages of research, about provenance, with history of the tribes and photos as well. It takes an average of 3 months to make a tiny basket and up to 3 years to make a large one of this quality.

If you have any questions, contact us or call for documents and further information on pieces.

All our collector and rare items come with pages and pages of research about provenance, and with history of the tribes and photos as well, depending on item and whenever possible. When shipping internationally, we group ship multiple purchases to save you money, and find the best rates available. If you have any questions or want to see research conducted on this piece and photos of tribes, tell us