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jpbarrera2005 Store Adornment handmade from native wood from Iquitos, Peru a.imagelink {color:#d32603;} a:hover.imagelink {color:#d32603;} a:visited.imagelink {color:#000000;} a.imagelink img.auctionimage { border: 2px solid #d32603; } a:visited.imagelink img.auctionimage { border: 2px solid #000000; } Iquitos is a city submerged in the Peruvian Amazon Region, which seen from the air, spreads out like a huge, green seemingly endless cloak. Liked to the world only by air and by the Amazon River, Iquitos is the capital of Loreto, the largest department of Peru. It is located 3,646 km from the Atlantic Ocean and 1,859 km from Lima, the capital of Peru. Seemingly far away, this city and its surroundings constitute one of the most important tourist attractions in the area.The residents of Amazonia develops tools and pieces of handmade traditional way, transforming the forest products for various purposes. Thus, the mud, the roots of trees, vines or ropes, pens, dyes, bark, wood and seeds purchased varied forms and textures to transform itself into pieces and unique ornamental objects of everyday use.In this region the craft is a practice inherited from ancient indigenous peoples. Villagers mestizos also practiced using the varied resources that gives them the forest. The coastal villagers, using simple tools to work, manage to print utility and aesthetic values to raw materials of their environment. To transform the nature through manual labor was the first cultural activity of man. Since last, people not only confined themselves to produce utilitarian objects but also for decoration and embellishment, merging something useful with the aesthetic and religion, giving rise to what we now see as handicrafts. Among raw materials dominate the plants, animals and debris to a lesser extent minerals. Indigenous groups also made a cottage industry consisting of ceremonial garments, ornaments, pottery, objects varied to shamanism and other communal use. For the defense and hunting are tailored arrows, bows, spears, darts and cerbatanas. Certain images/photos are the copyrighted property of JupiterImages and are used with permission under license.
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