Palaspas tala earrings ii

🌴 Palaspas Tala⭐ Earrings by BukoBomba

⭐ Star weave palm 🐚 w/ cowrie shell & brass skull pendant🌴 

Model💃 Christina Cordis 

📸 Nicanor Evans

Note: earrings made of real palm leaf plant, color change over time, handle w/care for longevity

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About palm weaving art:

Beyond palm sunday- palm leaf weaving is an art form ancient, prevalent and present in everyday life to spiritual rites. In the Philippines & all over the world -its can be both sacred & mundane. It's various woven forms can transform creations such as for daily needs like baskets, rice pouch cookware, walls and roofs for kubos/ homes/ shelters and for play like making woven balls, animals & stars. It becomes even special in times when used for rituals, spiritual prayers, dance, healing & divinations. Such as in 1685 times of the spanish inquisition, Catalonans (indigenous priestesses) from Bolinao were persecuted; Of the paraphernalia confiscated & used against these Catalonans to classify & kill them as evident "brujas" was their ritual use of the palm leaf wand, bulanday. 

Especially in the Philippines, palms and it's woven form Palaspas- are not just mere flora and fauna but special instruments for ceremonies or of the divine. Palms have been used for rituals to call bountiful crop harvests, for divine protection, talisman and to even ward off negative entities, spirits, or sickness. It has also been used for fertility, ritual dances, adorned with ointments, incorporated in altars, and sacred offerings & spaces. The palm leaf is abundant and prolific, in animist being its everyday & sacred. 

Recommended Read 📚

Palaspas: An Appreciation of Palm Leaf Art in the Philippines by E. Nocheseda