Amalia Chiripua: Wounaan Weaver (Papayo, Colombia)
Meet the Maker · Papayo Reserve, Colombia
Amalia Chiripua
Master Wounaan basket weaver, born 1960 in the Papayo Reserve of Colombia. She cultivates her own palm and dyes.
Amalia Chiripua, Papayo Reserve, Chocó, Colombia.
Amalia Chiripua is a master Wounaan basket weaver from the Papayo Reserve in the Chocó region of Colombia. Born in 1960, she has spent her life weaving, cultivating her own chunga palm, and producing her own natural dyes from local plants.
Her own palm, her own dyes
Amalia cultivates the chunga palm on her own land and dyes the fibers from plants she gathers and prepares herself. Her work represents the Colombian branch of the Wounaan tradition, closely related to the basketry of Panama's Darién but rooted in the Chocó.
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Who is Amalia Chiripua?
Amalia Chiripua is a master Wounaan basket weaver born in 1960 in the Papayo Reserve, Chocó region of Colombia. She cultivates her own palm and natural dyes.
