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Antique Large RARE 19 1/2" Vintage Yanomami Basket Yanomamo Amazon Rainforest

$ 237.6

Availability: 72 in stock
  • Condition: great condition for its age - bought many years ago at a museum sale so it is quite old from what I was told
  • Maker: Yanomami people Brazil
  • Material: reeds
  • Color: Brown

    Description

    Old Yanomami Yanomamo Amazon Rainforest Indian Tribal Basket purchased from out of a museum sale
    Please zoom in on the photos to see details and condition
    Measures approximately  4 1/2" deep and 19 1/2" diameter
    so
    this is quite a large basket
    as
    compared to some of the other ones I see up for sale now here and in other places online
    YANOMAMI “XOTO” BASKET
    The Yanomami also called Yanomamo, and Yanomama, Shiriana,
    Yanam and Sanuma and Yanomae live deep in the jungles of
    the Amazon basin in both Venezuela and Brazil.
    They have successfully maintained their traditional ways
    of life thus considered one of the last culturally intact
    native populations in the world.
    Made exclusively by women, xoto, and wïï burden baskets
    (pic no. 6) are woven from the titica vine with black fungi
    threads or painted with natural paint, either a reddish color
    from crushed onoto seeds or black masticated charcoal or from
    the dark colored fruit genipapo. They are often decorated
    with traditional designs and symbols that are reflections
    of their cosmology.
    Yanomami baskets are used for everything from carrying fish
    to firewood. Xoto is a flat basket or tray, made for use in
    the shabano or hut to store things as well as for serving trays.
    They are stored by hanging from the shabano poles. The larger
    wïï burden baskets are made in the same fashion except they
    have a strap is attached that fits around the forehead while
    the basket rests on the back like a backpack.
    Please ask questions before you purchase and I will be happy to answer and if you like even take more photos of any part of this basket
    as
    on items this large since they are a bit harder for us to ship so all sales are final
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