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Tribal Bark Painting

In this particular tribal bark painting one sees a fragment of the Ngöbe tribe’s lifeways and surroundings. These bark paintings called mastates depict the natural environment, as well as the beliefs and esoteric traditions of the native Ngobe-Buglé people of Costa Rica and Panama. Although rendered in a naïf, un-schooled, style, the contents of these compositions (in natural pigments) are of major ethnographic and anthropological import.

• Artist: K. Palacios
• Tribe: Ngöbe
• Size: 16″ x 20″ or 41cm x 51cm