Wounaan Indian Poison Dart Frog Tagua Nut Carving Hand Carved 5″ H circumference 16"

5″ H circumference 16"

This basket measures about 2" tall and 10" circumference

Vintage Hand-Woven Home Decor Basket

The fiber comes from a palm and the artists call it chunga

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

Wounaan Indian Poison Dart Frog Tagua Nut Carving Hand Carved 5″ H circumference 16"The 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