Rainsticks

If rainsticks could really bring rain, our store would flood occasionally, especially when men shop. I love to see the really big macho man standing there, still, enchanted by the sound of tiny pebbles slowly flowing inside the hollow cactus trunk.

Our rainsticks are made by artisans in Chile from the Capado cactus plant.  These cactus are plentiful in the Atacama desert of Northern Chile where the rainsticks are used in ceremonies to bring-- you guessed it---RAIN.  the Capado cactus lives to be 60 to 70 years old, when they die and dry out the wood skeleton called the normata is harvested, hollowed out and filled with small volcanic ash pebbles.  Small nails are driven through the trunk in a spiral formation creating the unique sound of water as the pebbles fall slowly when the cactus is turned upside down.

1 23456 789 Super 80 inches $145.00 SOLD OUT

1 23456 789 Large 40 inches $49.00