Native Bora Craftsmanship
Submitted by World Beat on Mon, 01/11/2010 - 19:42They are artistically talented tribes, making masks, dolls, rattles, blowguns etc. Many of their crafts are made of bark cloth decorated with vegetable dyes. The bark cloth is made of the inner bark of a fig tree and is beaten until it is paper or cloth like. From the bark cloth they make their clothing which consists of a short skirt for both men and women in the Huitoto. There is a type of palm tree used the make the twine used in bags and hammocks. The Bora tribe dresses similarly, but the women wear a dress of bark cloth as opposed to just a skirt.