Yanomami Basket Yanomamo Amazonian Indian Amazon Primitive Art

Description

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.
AUCTION IS FOR ONE BASKET AS SHOWN IN THE FIRST TWO PICS.
MEASUREMENTS: 15"
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