CHAMBIRA BASKET WITH WILDLIIFE CARVING ON CALABASH CENTER
This unique basket is woven with chambira palm fiber with a calabash pod center featuring an etched design of a rainforest animal. It will make a stunning decoration on your wall or be an eye-catching place for your mail, keys or other knick-knacks. These multi-material baskets are made by artisans from the community of Amazonas on the Maranon River in the Peruvian Amazon.
These baskets were handmade by different artisans so the exact design may vary from the photo shown for this model. Medium size baskets average 10.5 inches in diameter; small size averages 9.25 inches across.
Models: WBWB049 (Tropical screech owl); WBWB007 (Toucan); WBWB028 (Scarlet macaw)
Support native artisans & rainforest in the Amazon
Amazon forest loss is driving species to extinction, aggravating global warming, and robbing people of unique medicines, foods and other benefits. Cutting and burning forests is often more profitable than conserving them, so some native communities in northern Peru have illegally logged and grown coca and other cash-crops to escape poverty.
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