{"id":65,"date":"2008-05-31T10:30:33","date_gmt":"2008-05-31T10:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2008\/mukuni-village-curios\/"},"modified":"2009-04-03T08:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T08:05:00","slug":"mukuni-village-curios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2008\/mukuni-village-curios\/","title":{"rendered":"Mukuni Village Curios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The main source of income for the rural villages near the <a title=\"Victoria Falls\" href=\"\/pages\/2007\/victoria-falls\" target=\"_self\">Victoria Falls<\/a> is <strong>curio<\/strong> selling, most especially the beautiful wood carvings. There are two main areas where these can be purchased, one is the <a title=\"Victoria Falls\" href=\"\/pages\/2007\/victoria-falls\" target=\"_self\">Victoria Falls<\/a> Craft Village and the other is at <strong>Mukuni Village Curios<\/strong> Craft Market.<\/p>\n<p>I have been working with the\u00a0both\u00a0craft centres\u00a0to help them improve their methods of selling curios; unfortunately they had been receiving bad press as they were noted for being too pushy, which can be off putting\u00a0to a tourist visiting the area for the first time. I can sympathise with them\u00a0knowing that without a precious sale, which enables them\u00a0to buy a bag of\u00a0ground maize,\u00a0the family may go hungry.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"imageframe imgalignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-content\/images\/2538545144_80c6e63dfe.jpg\" alt=\"Mukuni Curios\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Photo: Mukuni Village Curios<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now the guys from <a title=\"Mukuni Village\" href=\"\/pages\/mukuni-village\/\" target=\"_self\">Mukuni Village<\/a>\u00a0have now &#8216;cleaned up their act&#8217; and a trip to either of the markets is a definite must\u00a0on everyone&#8217;s itinerary. The animal carvings which are\u00a0mostly\u00a0made in Mukuni,\u00a0are very popular, using African woods &#8211; magongany, iron,\u00a0and\u00a0ebony; the worksmanship is of a high standard and\u00a0the prices very reasonable. Elaborate walking sticks, tribal masks, drums and basketware are also locally made\u00a0as well as unusual soap stone carvings.\u00a0<a title=\"The Butterfly Tree\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/about\/\">The Butterfly Tree<\/a> has set up two families in business and also supported a sustainable business for a <a title=\"Widows project\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/our-work\/\">group of widows<\/a> to produce needlecraft, intricate African beadwork\u00a0and jewellery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main source of income for the rural villages near the Victoria Falls is curio selling, most especially the beautiful wood carvings. There are two main areas where these can be purchased, one is the Victoria Falls Craft Village and<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/2008\/mukuni-village-curios\/\"> More details ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebutterflytree.org.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}