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Raw Material: Werregue fibers, cotton fabric, solid purple flower wood.
Technique: Basketry in roll, vertical loom, joinery.

THE WOUNAAN NATIVES

The Wounaan natives inhabit the Colombian Pacific coast and produce pitches, essential objects in their homes, with fiber of Werregue or weguer as they cally to a spiny trinco palm that reaches 20 meters high and the extraction is an art that the Wounaan dominate by asking permission from the spiritual owner of the Werregue, Jaí, to avoid illness. These handcrafted pieces originate from the myth about a dispute between "Ewandam" the creator God of the Wounaan and the devil "Dosat" They make beautiful jugs with anthropomorphic and zoomorgic figures that tell stories of the jungle, of what they see and live daily. Seeing them knit these pieces is all an experience, they draw while weaving without any mathematical logic, or at least as we understand it, it is as if they could capture the figures they have in mind without adding or subtracting fibers, simply by drawing.