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Spring cleaning the web site: 

           Please look at the Wounaan Basket page for new basket photos and the poster we have printed: Wounaan Rainforest Baskets. It is only $10 and can be a great guide to basket purchases, as well as a beautiful gift.  Help us save the Darien Rainforest! 

           We have some superb Lakota Sioux artifacts, including a very large buffalo robe, brain-tanned and beautifully painted, which is soft and luxurious. We also have a buffalo headdress and a war bonnet, plus a few buffalo dolls. 

           Storytellers by Carol Lucero Gachupin are attracting great admiration, so we have photographed one and show it on the "Artifacts" page. Our Pueblo pottery pieces are hand-collected clay. The artists still crawl into the caves as they have done for hundreds of years to collect the different colored clays. Then there is the time consuming task of grinding and sifting the clay until it is workable. The pieces are "coil built" like many of us did in grade school by rolling "snakes" to coil into pottery. They are "pit-fired" and "painted" with the natural clay slips. 

            Carol charges by how many children the Storyteller is holding and will custom make Storytellers for you. 

           There are very few traditional potters left. It is so labor intensive. We are trying to preserve the traditional art forms. You can surely tell the difference when you see the work.

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