These beautifully crafted pieces of organic tableware were originally made by the Pijaos Indians of Colombia South America, who over hundreds of years from before the Spanish Explorers visited their country, had perfected the technique. By utilising an ideal locally found material to make containers for religious ceromonies and the production of cooking, food storing and serving, the Pijaos created something eventually of worldwide universal appeal evident as long ago as when the first Spanish adventurers visited South America .