Colorful Highly Collectible & Unique (DARIEN RAINFOREST ART, PANAMA) MUSEUM QUALITY INTRICATE MINUSCULE TIGHT WEAVE Museum Masterpiece Darien Jungle Wounaan American Indian Hösig Di Renown Artist Basket Diamond motif Designer, collector Art Decor300A23

Sold at fraction of retail

Item: 300A23

A large basket with an intense minute weave, diamond motif

(seen on the first 8 pictures)

JUST REDUCED ADDITIONALLY BY $1,500.00

COMPARE AT $10,000.00 AND MORE

HUGE SIZE

Measures: 10"x 13" and 40" (diameter)

This is an outstanding museum quality Wounaan collector basket, very large and absolutely perfect in every way.

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

We only buy the tightest, the best designs and the greatest color combined, all museum quality.

Silk stitch

You are buying the huge Wounaan Hösig Di basket

(Seen on the first 8 photos

Collected in the Darién Rainforest of Panamá

We only buy the tightest, the best designs and the greatest colors, all museum quality. Silk stitch.  

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.

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.

They also work a technique more complex than twining—coil construction, starting with a small bundle of fibers tied in a small overhand knot. The more fibers gathered into the knot, the larger and thicker would be the coil that supports the basket.

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

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, let us know.