Vintage Tonga Binga Basket (48.1) Mother carved from one solid piece

carved from one solid piece of Baobab wood

Back of cushion in pistachio green cotton

Origin: Cameroon · Size: approx

antlers approx

Build time around 30–45 minutes — and especially easy thanks to the wide opening

Vintage Tonga Binga Basket (48.1) Mother carved from one solid pieceThese vintage handwoven baskets are the apex of the Bathonga people in Zimbabwe and Southern Zambia. The baskets made from the Ilala palm leaf start as a woven square and end up almost perfectly round. The pattern on the edging is referred to as snakes belly, as the pattern resembles the scales of a serpent. Palm fibres are died using tree bark to make fibres with different colours. These particular range of baskets are vintage originally used to