Showing posts with label Rainforest Crafts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rainforest Crafts. Show all posts
Friday, January 23, 2009
Montessori World
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Rayela Art Molas
Click on the mola to see current Rayela Art molas on Etsy. Stock normally includes $9 molitas, a large selection of $30-$45 molas and a few more expensive ones.
Mola Books on Amazon
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Wounaan: Culture in Crisis Video
Good documentary about the Wounaan in Panama, their struggle to maintain their forests, the connection they make with ecology, handicrafts and sustainability. Shows some footage of their basket weaving. Spanish with English subtitles.
Travel Channel on the Kuna People
The Travel Channel visits the Kuna and explores a bit of its social structure. Also, shows footage of women making molas.
Kuna Yala Montage, San Blas Islands, Panama
Video of Kuna village life with quite a few shots of mola making. No narrative- set to flute playing.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Postcards from Panama (from a quilter!)
"This is Ana Linda Alba, she is Rosa’s sister. Rosa wasn’t there the day I took these pictures. They share the duty of attending to the stall - I never know which one of them will be there when I show up. "
A Dick Blick Paper Mola Lesson Plan
Children in grades 4 through 6 will find this activity fun and enlightening. From Dick Blick Art Materials!
Biblical Molas at Heart of Healing Gallery
Heart of Healing Gallery has a huge collection of Biblical molas and other high quality molas and mola blouses. Individual Kuna artists are given recognition.
Panart: Dedicated to the Artisans of Panama
A Kuna woman who supplies Panart with molas.
From their site:
Indigenous Artisans of Panamá:
Emberá, Wounaan, Kuna, Ngobe-Bugle
Panamá has a diverse and culturally rich Indigenous population which accounts for approximately 8 percent of the total population.
Although threatened by environmental degradation of their lands and incursions by outside groups, the tribal people of Panamá have managed to preserve much of their culture and traditions. They are engaged in a ongoing struggle to have their homelands legally recognized and the boundaries respected.
Crafts for sale to outsiders have developed from the traditional material culture and now help maintain tribal identity as well as provide a supplemental means of support when people can no longer depend completely on a traditional lifestyle.
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