Tonga Basket Natural (45-11) Doctor This cloth is known as

This cloth is known as Mapela

Care: gentle cold hand wash

Bronze trade beads have a long history across West Africa as both currency and adornment

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and many of their masks are for royal festivities

Tonga Basket Natural (45-11) Doctor This cloth is known asA handwoven natural Tonga basket in Ilala palm These solid edged baskets are the pinnacle of the Tonga (Bathonga) basket maker's art in Zimbabwe and Southern Zambia. Woven from Ilala palm leaf, each starts as a square and is coiled into an almost perfect circle. The fine edging is known as snake's belly for its serpent scale pattern, and the soft natural tones come from dyes made with tree bark. Traditionally used to winnow grain, today they make