Handcarved Tagua Budda with Balsa box & Kapok Tree cotton size 4.5cm x 3cm.
Tagua is the nut of a family of palm trees found in certain regions of Central and South America. This particular tagua is Phytelephas aequatorialis which is found in coastal rainforest along the central coast of Ecuador, South America. Tagua is considered a Vegetable Ivory with all the same properties and characteristics of Animal Ivory except thar it is harder and more dense.
Not only is Tagua a beautiful and rare product worthy of collecting in its many forms, it is also a very important product both economically and ecologically. The Tagua nut provides an accessible and plentiful art medium for traditional, talented artisans allowing them to earn a living where economic options are very few. In addition, the economic activity of Tagua carving preserves rain forest. How?? You can’t have a Tagua nut without the Tagua Palm. Because the nut becomes an important, economic medium the tree is more important than the land underneath it and, therefore, deters the clearing of rainforest for farmland.
On Aug-21-08 at 10:43:21 PDT, seller added the following information:
Handcarved Tagua Budda with Balsa box & Kapok Tree cotton size 4.5cm x 3cm.
Tagua is the nut of a family of palm trees found in certain regions of Central and South America. This particular tagua is Phytelephas aequatorialis which is found in coastal rainforest along the central coast of Ecuador, South America. Tagua is considered a Vegetable Ivory with all the same properties and characteristics of Animal Ivory except thar it is harder and more dense.
Not only is Tagua a beautiful and rare product worthy of collecting in its many forms, it is also a very important product both economically and ecologically. The Tagua nut provides an accessible and plentiful art medium for traditional, talented artisans allowing them to earn a living where economic options are very few. In addition, the economic activity of Tagua carving preserves rain forest. How?? You can’t have a Tagua nut without the Tagua Palm. Because the nut becomes an important, economic medium the tree is more important than the land underneath it and, therefore, deters the clearing of rainforest for farmland.
On Aug-29-08 at 14:11:58 PDT, seller added the following information:
Handcarved Tagua Budda with Balsa box & Kapok Tree cotton size 4.5cm x 3cm.
Tagua is the nut of a family of palm trees found in certain regions of Central and South America. This particular tagua is Phytelephas aequatorialis which is found in coastal rainforest along the central coast of Ecuador, South America. Tagua is considered a Vegetable Ivory with all the same properties and characteristics of Animal Ivory except thar it is harder and more dense.
Not only is Tagua a beautiful and rare product worthy of collecting in its many forms, it is also a very important product both economically and ecologically. The Tagua nut provides an accessible and plentiful art medium for traditional, talented artisans allowing them to earn a living where economic options are very few. In addition, the economic activity of Tagua carving preserves rain forest. How?? You can’t have a Tagua nut without the Tagua Palm. Because the nut becomes an important, economic medium the tree is more important than the land underneath it and, therefore, deters the clearing of rainforest for farmland.
On Aug-21-08 at 10:43:21 PDT, seller added the following information:
Handcarved Tagua Budda with Balsa box & Kapok Tree cotton size 4.5cm x 3cm.
Tagua is the nut of a family of palm trees found in certain regions of Central and South America. This particular tagua is Phytelephas aequatorialis which is found in coastal rainforest along the central coast of Ecuador, South America. Tagua is considered a Vegetable Ivory with all the same properties and characteristics of Animal Ivory except thar it is harder and more dense.
Not only is Tagua a beautiful and rare product worthy of collecting in its many forms, it is also a very important product both economically and ecologically. The Tagua nut provides an accessible and plentiful art medium for traditional, talented artisans allowing them to earn a living where economic options are very few. In addition, the economic activity of Tagua carving preserves rain forest. How?? You can’t have a Tagua nut without the Tagua Palm. Because the nut becomes an important, economic medium the tree is more important than the land underneath it and, therefore, deters the clearing of rainforest for farmland.
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