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Chacara Bags from 
the Ngobe-Bugle of Panama

Chacara bags are woven from the fiber of the wild pineapple plant (Aechmea magdalenae).  The Ngobe-Bugle use these bags for transporting everything from babies to market goods on the mountainous trails of their tribal homeland in western Panama. 

Chacara bags stretch beyond the dimensions given in the descriptions. 

For more information about the Ngobe-Bugle (Guaymi) people of Panama see the book:
A PANAMA FOREST AND SHORE
by Burton L. Gordon

New Chacara Bags Fall 2008

Chacara Bag
Ngobe-Bugle Chacara Bag CH18
approx. 8.5" by 10.5"
$45 (sold)
Ngobe-Bugle Chacara Bag CH20
approx. 8" by 9.5"
$40 (sold)
Chacara Bag
Ngobe-Bugle Chacara Bag CH23
approx 12.5" by 13"
$65 (sold)
Chacara Bag
Ngobe-Bugle Chacara Bag CH24
approx. 11.25" by 12.5"
$55 (sold)
Chacara Bag
Ngobe-Bugle Chacara Bag CH26
approx. 17" by 16"
$65
loose stitching and very stretchy
Ngobe-Bugle Chacara Bag CH25
approx. 8.5" by 10"
$30 (sold)
Click here for smaller chacara bags . . .
For purchase information please email info@panart.com
Price reduction for orders of three or more items