CARVED & BEADED BY HAND · AMAZON & ANDES
Three families, and no two pieces alike. Each one is cut from a single length of wood, carved, painted, and then wrapped bead by bead — work that takes days and belongs to the hands that did it. We buy them from the artisans themselves, in Pucallpa and in the Sacred Valley.
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THE TEPIS
A tepi is the long applicator — one person holds it, another blows. Ours come from Shipibo artists in the Peruvian Amazon, cut from palo sangre, a dense red hardwood. The carving runs the whole length: a frog, an owl, an eagle, a flower at the mouthpiece. Then the shaft is wrapped in glass beads, one at a time, in the kené patterns the Shipibo have been drawing for generations.
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THE KURIPES
The kuripe is the self applicator: two short tubes joined in a V, sized to the person holding it. It is the smallest thing we sell and often the most personal — people choose theirs by the animal carved on it. Ours come in bamboo and in carved hardwood, some beaded, some left bare so the grain shows.
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THE PRAYER PIPES
The pipes are the heaviest pieces we carry and the slowest to make. Each one is carved from a single block — the bowl hollowed, the stem drilled by hand — and finished with an animal cut in relief: jaguar, anaconda, eagle, hummingbird. There are never many at once.
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Some of these pieces are traditionally connected to ceremonial, artistic or ancestral practices. We buy them from the artisans who make them, we sell them as the objects they are, and we ask that they be treated with the same respect they were made with.
The Wizard Caravan does not claim to provide medical, psychological or spiritual treatment through any product sold. More in our FAQ.
WHEN THE NEXT ONES LAND
Every piece here is one of one, so the shelf changes week to week. Leave an e-mail and we will write before the next batch goes up — never more than that.
