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Introduction Panel |
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Entrance to Exhibition |
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Grandé Style Pictorial Basket |
| The pictorial baskets depict rainforest flora and fauna in endless variety. Stylized parrots, toucans, hummingbirds, bats, butterflies, spiders, ants, jaguars, sloths, monkeys, iguanas, exotic flowers and trees are woven into each basket one stitch at a time. Frequently, a weaver will exhibit her creativity and skill by incorporating a favorite animal, which becomes her "trademark." |
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| Click on the green highlighted numbers for information on the basket. Information on the baskets represented by the black numbers coming soon. |
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Titled "Rainforest Menagerie," this grandé style basket took more than three years to complete and represents an enormous sustained effort in integrating her "tree-of-life" design that emerges from the bottom of the basket.
Click on any number to visit the weaver in her creative environment. |
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Among "Life in the Rainforest" photographs, baskets here represent the two categories of design: traditional geometric (Cultural) motifs and more recent rainforest (Pictorial) themes.
Click on the green highlighted numbers for information on the basket. Information on the baskets represented by the black numbers coming soon. |
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| Poison dart frogs on forest leaves, covering the basket at right, illustrate the importance of a small, brightly colored amphibian to the hunting practices of past generations of Wounaan who now hunt with rifles instead of blowguns. Rubbed on a dart, the neurotoxins exuded by the frog stun small birds and mammals. Paradoxically, the future of this fingernail-size endangered frog is uncertain, as global climate and other environmental changes alter the fragile rainforest habitat. |
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| Sponsored by Lorran and Charlotte Meares, Loida Mejia, master weaver of the hummingbird basket, right, was selected to be one of 80 artists from around the world to participate in the 2006 Santa Fe International Folk Art Market. |
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| CLICK HERE to view details of this important basket, now part of a private collection. |
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Among photographs documenting materials gathering, dye-making from vegetal sources and weaving methods, baskets by other master weavers showcase their techniques and hallmark motifs.
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| Exhibited for their array of designs and weaving techniques, these baskets represent the epitomy of the Wounaan hosig di art form. |
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