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<p>[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 1192676, member: 8267"]I believe they are a type of basket called a <i>hösig di</i>, made by the Wounaan and Embera Indians of eastern Panama and northern Colombia. According to <u>Darien Rainforest Basketry: Baskets of the Wounaan and Embera Indians from the Darien Rainforest of Panama,</u> by Margo M. Callaghan, these little baskets are made of <i>chunga</i>, a fiber from the black palm tree. Traditionally they were used to keep small valuables, and were usually undecorated, just the plain light color of the chunga. Beginning in the 1980s, however, various people began to encourage the Wounaan and Embera to make baskets for sale, and they have become very skilled at producing much larger and highly decorated baskets that command significant prices.</p><p><img src="https://artoftheemberawounaankunaandngob.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/8/3/14832032/7947697.jpg?331" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><a href="https://artoftheemberawounaankunaandngob.weebly.com/art-of-embera-and-wounaan.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://artoftheemberawounaankunaandngob.weebly.com/art-of-embera-and-wounaan.html" rel="nofollow">https://artoftheemberawounaankunaandngob.weebly.com/art-of-embera-and-wounaan.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 1192676, member: 8267"]I believe they are a type of basket called a [I]hösig di[/I], made by the Wounaan and Embera Indians of eastern Panama and northern Colombia. According to [U]Darien Rainforest Basketry: Baskets of the Wounaan and Embera Indians from the Darien Rainforest of Panama,[/U] by Margo M. Callaghan, these little baskets are made of [I]chunga[/I], a fiber from the black palm tree. Traditionally they were used to keep small valuables, and were usually undecorated, just the plain light color of the chunga. Beginning in the 1980s, however, various people began to encourage the Wounaan and Embera to make baskets for sale, and they have become very skilled at producing much larger and highly decorated baskets that command significant prices. [IMG]https://artoftheemberawounaankunaandngob.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/8/3/14832032/7947697.jpg?331[/IMG] [URL]https://artoftheemberawounaankunaandngob.weebly.com/art-of-embera-and-wounaan.html[/URL][/QUOTE]
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