Harvest Joy African Rubberwood Mask Coin Purses including baskets

including baskets

Copal wood & maguey fiber

Local village women weave discarded telephone wires to create the baskets

wide sleeves and matching belt for leisure beauty

and not the American variant of the game

Harvest Joy African Rubberwood Mask Coin Purses including basketsAbdul Aziz Mohamadu carves and paints this intricate mask by hand. He names this piece Daimuwa, a Hausa word meaning 'worried'. Mohamadu explains, "Farmers wear the mask to remember the days of severe hunger. Although the festival is joyous and filled with merrymaking, the sight of this mask reminds people to keep their crops well and waste nothing". African rubberwood, copper wire & brass Handmade in & fairly traded from Ghana