Panará handicrafts The Panará people's handicrafts are based on a division of labour by gender, where men are responsible for producing various objects such as baskets, paddles, canoes, bows, arrows and brooms. The women, meanwhile, are responsible for festival decor that uses seeds and/or beads, pestles and body paintings that will be made into textiles for trade. The only reason why the current production isn’t greater is largely due to the damaging impact that the Panará's first contact with society in the 1970s had on their rich material culture. Territorial expropriation and exile in the Xingu distanced the Panará from the natural resources that enabled them to produce utilitarian objects, ornaments, weapons, musical instruments, and more. Panará craft production has survived the test of time and has taken on a new importance: that of being the main source of regular income for Panará families.