Our friend, researcher and photographer David Burckhalter, who has been documenting the Seri (Comcaac) people for many years (and recently released his latest book Baskets from the Seri Coast) brought in these absolutely beautiful Seri ironwood carvings. These carvings have been often imitated since the 1970s, but the extraordinary lines so elegantly captured by Seri carvers is unmatched. Ironwood was traditionally used for utilitarian objects like bowls and spoons, but in the 1960s Jose Astorga pioneered the carvind of sea animals and birds in ironwood. These carvings are by Manuel Romero and are available in our Tucson shop and have been posted to our website.
