TribalArtisans procures artesanal works from hunter-gatherer tribes
StartupRealities No 128 TribalArtisans is a primitive art auction house which procures artesanal objects from hunter-gatherer societies and auctions them to museums, anthropology galleries and private collectors. The company obtains the majority of the handcrafted objects by seeding and growing an emergent cargo cult in tribes with little contact with the outside world. MYTHOLOGY & EXCHANGE TribalArtisans does not trade with tribes directly. Instead, company drones periodically deliver colourful glass objects, basic metal tools and simple colourful jewellery and deposit these manufactured goods in the roots of the oldest tree near the tribal village. When the tribe discovers these objects, the tree begins to acquire a supernatural status in their belief system and mythology and the tribe seniors and shamans often start making sacrificial gifts of their own artesanal tools and handcraft works to the tree. These gifts are picked up by drone at a time when the drone will no...