ugandan crafts
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$80The Nubian Tabaga have their origins as handcrafted items, meticulously fashioned using conventional techniques and materials. They are delicately assembled using youthful papyrus straw, jafu, and disi sourced from the North and Central regions. The final Tabaga products have versatile applications, serving as elegant vessels for presenting fruits or storing vegetables. Beyond their practical use, they hold cultural significance, gracing events such as traditional weddings where they cradle gifts meant for the brides. Furthermore, these Tabaga pieces find purpose in adornment or as charming placements upon tables.
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$80The Nubian Tabaga have their origins as handcrafted items, meticulously fashioned using conventional techniques and materials. They are delicately assembled using youthful papyrus straw, jafu, and disi sourced from the North and Central regions. The final Tabaga products have versatile applications, serving as elegant vessels for presenting fruits or storing vegetables. Beyond their practical use, they hold cultural significance, gracing events such as traditional weddings where they cradle gifts meant for the brides. Furthermore, these Tabaga pieces find purpose in adornment or as charming placements upon tables.
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$100These are ethically handwoven Ugandan baskets crafted from natural materials and dyes. Each basket features a sturdy lid for protection. With diverse applications including storage, gift presentations, plant holders, toy organizers, and decorative pieces, these baskets showcase impressive versatility.
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$75These baskets are authentically crafted by hand using traditional tools and materials. They’re created by interweaving palm leaves over coils constructed from papyrus stalks. Primarily, they serve the purpose of presenting fruits.
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$100These are ethically handwoven Ugandan baskets crafted from natural materials and dyes. Each basket features a sturdy lid for protection. With diverse applications including storage, gift presentations, plant holders, toy organizers, and decorative pieces, these baskets showcase impressive versatility.
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$80The Nubian Tabaga have their origins as handcrafted items, meticulously fashioned using conventional techniques and materials. They are delicately assembled using youthful papyrus straw, jafu, and disi sourced from the North and Central regions. The final Tabaga products have versatile applications, serving as elegant vessels for presenting fruits or storing vegetables. Beyond their practical use, they hold cultural significance, gracing events such as traditional weddings where they cradle gifts meant for the brides. Furthermore, these Tabaga pieces find purpose in adornment or as charming placements upon tables.
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$35Endiro Baskets embody the distinct essence of our Ankole culture, rooted in the western part of Uganda. Crafted through intricate handweaving, these baskets utilize naturally sourced sweet grass, imbued with organic dyes that enhance their ornamental qualities. Historically, these baskets have held a significant role as cherished offerings presented to brides during traditional Ankole weddings. Their primary function lies in serving Karo (millet bread), a cornerstone of our renowned culinary heritage. Beyond this, Endiro baskets have evolved to encompass diverse roles, serving as both embellishments within living and workspace environments, as well as receptacles for safeguarding treasures such as earrings and other valuables.
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$50
The term “flute” originally encompassed pipe instruments held both horizontally and vertically. A flute player can go by different names, such as flutist, flautist, fluter, or flutenist.
Among the instruments with the highest pitch is the flute, leading to compositions written in treble clef.
Throughout history, flutes have been crafted from diverse materials, including wood, bone, ivory, glass, silver, gold, and platinum.
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$60
Djembe drum is a rope-tuned skin-covered goblet drum played with bare hands.Musicians use the djembe as the instrument of dance at marriages, baptisms, funerals, circumcisions and excisions. They also play songs during the ploughing, sowing and harvest, during courtship rituals and even to settle disputes among the men of the village.
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The Engalabi, a Ugandan percussion instrument, is a membranophone with different names based on its size and shape. It traditionally comprises a reptile skin head on a sizable wooden body. Integral in traditional ceremonies and theatre, particularly “Okwabya Olumbe,” the Engalabi demands musicians to play with bare hands, excluding beaters or sticks.
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$100
In the African tradition, drums hold the vital force propelling performances. Music transcends mere entertainment, intricately interwoven with visual arts, dramatic expressions, and life’s essence. Drums serve a communicative purpose, mimicking speech to transmit information and signals. African languages often intertwine tone and rhythm, rendering speech musical; a quality echoed by drums and instruments. Drumming and dance invariably complement ceremonies like births, weddings, labor, and funerals. They fuse together, underscoring the profound significance of rituals
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$80
The Nubian Tabaga have their origins as handcrafted items, meticulously fashioned using conventional techniques and materials. They are delicately assembled using youthful papyrus straw, jafu, and disi sourced from the North and Central regions. The final Tabaga products have versatile applications, serving as elegant vessels for presenting fruits or storing vegetables. Beyond their practical use, they hold cultural significance, gracing events such as traditional weddings where they cradle gifts meant for the brides. Furthermore, these Tabaga pieces find purpose in adornment or as charming placements upon tables.
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$15
Crafted from vibrant, rolled paper and secured with adhesive, these paper bead bracelets feature beads arranged on a string according to wrist size.
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$7
Exquisitely chosen glass beads come together to craft these earrings, imbuing them with vibrant colors and captivating beauty.
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$20
Kitenge travel bags feature vibrant and stunning patterns crafted from kitenge fabric. These bags serve as stylish travel packaging solutions.
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$30
Ensaasi, a subset of Ugandan percussion instruments, are alternately referred to as Enseege shakers. Crafted from gourds or shells, these shakers embellish traditional Ugandan musical ensembles. By incorporating beads or small objects like pebbles, the distinctive sound arises when these elements interact within Ensaasi’s rounded shells. During dances or performances, shaking the Ensaasi produces this captivating auditory effect.
