Heavily Decorated Rain Forest Basketry Jar

Wounaan

Heavily Decorated Rain Forest Basketry Jar, Baskets by Wounaan
  • Panamanian basket
  • butterfly basket
  • rainforest basket
  • Panama basket
Savvy Price $625.00
Gallery Price $700.00
Title
Heavily Decorated Rain Forest Basketry Jar
Artist
Wounaan
Medium
Palm fiber, black, natural and vegetal dyed
Size
6 1/4" height X 6 1/4" maximum diameter
Coil count
12 per inch
Stitch count
40 stitches per inch
Date of creation
Circa 2000
Condition
Mint !
Provenance
B Nib
About The Heavily Decorated Rain Forest Basketry Jar

This ultra-finely woven basket's banded neck and three vertical registers are in contast to pictorial references to butterflies in flight.  The basket's bottom features three concentric rings of stepped triangles.

About Wounaan
The master basket weavers of the Wounaan tribe live in Panama, deep in the Darien Rainforest, near the Columbian border.
Other Works By Wounaan:
  • Panamanian Butterfly Basket, wings extended, Baskets by Wounaan
Cultures

Latin American, Women Artists

Medium

Baskets

Subject

Insects

Keywords

Wounaan basket, Panamanian basket, butterfly basket, rainforest basket, Panama basket