Sumatra Ceremonial Beaded Box Miniature Hand Sewn Beads

We ship internationally, we group ship multiple purchases to save you money, if you have any questions, email cheetahdmr@aol.com

All our handcrafted or rare collector items come with pages and pages of research, about provenance, with history of the tribes and photos as well, depending on item and whenever possible. 

you are buying the rare collector box seen on first 5 pictures: Scarce vintage tribal ceremonial wedding offerings traditional hand woven box with lid (from the mid 20^th century) from East Sumatra, hand beaded with tiny beads, into a beautiful geometric pattern with elegant and intricate motifs. The form or inside of the basket-box is made of  hand woven lontar palm on which all the tiny beads have been sewn with threads into a spider web of tight designs,  plus there is a border of nassa shells, local seed beads on the lid & beaded fringes adorn the bottom of this precious box which took months to complete. This collectable is used exclusively during weddings, as a gift giving ceremonial tradition: it is given to the bride so she can store valuables, trinkets and jewelry within, during her married life. This kind of gift giving takes place among prominent families: Such valuables take more than 4 months to create, since they are entirely handcrafted & hand beaded, tiny bead by tiny bead (2mm each at best), into a beautiful mosaic looking pattern. Size is 6,5 x 6,5 x 5,25"

Super value! I have seen a similar box on the internet for well over $500.00.

We  normally retail it for 375.00 from our store. This is a special.

8^th photo is of a palace in Sumatra, where we collected this box. We also show other boxes available and beaded objects that we collected for many years in Sumatra and Borneo, hard to locate today.

Our prices are very low as we sell mostly wholesale and we go straight to the source to find these treasures, so you are getting the advantage of that saving as well as the advantage of the wholesale price without having to purchase multiples for a little while longer while we are making room.

To see pictures of our collection, go to this link below and scroll down till you get to the photos, there are a few pages of pictures & text for educational purposes that we were asked to place on this site and we add more weekly whenever we find time. You will find there photos of what we collect and sell regularly and the interesting stories behind these items we search for in remote areas of the world  http://tikiroom.com/tikicentral/bb/viewtopic.php?topic=14409&forum=5 and if you want to see colorful artwork to get ideas, and ways to transform houses with no flair into Carribean hideways, check this link again on the same site for fun! http://www.tikiroom.com/tikicentral/bb/viewtopic.php?topic=16503&forum=6&4