Wounaan Indian Poison Dart Frog Tagua Nut Carving Hand Carved Vintage Hand-Woven Home Decor Basket

Vintage Hand-Woven Home Decor Basket

Here's a Classic Bird tagua carving from the early 1990's

This basket measures about 2" tall and 10" circumference

18”Circumference

Wounaan Indian Poison Dart Frog Tagua Nut Carving Hand Carved Vintage Hand-Woven Home Decor BasketThe Tagua Story Tagua (tgw) is the seed of several types of palms that grow in tropical rain forests, also called ivory nut or vegetable ivory. From the Darien Choco region of Panama, the indigenous Wounaan people carve the tagua with hand tools and polish with a series of fine abrasives. The natural color of tagua is ivory white with a dark brown skin while other colors are produced by dyeing the tagua with all natural dyes. Income earned from the