About the Magellan Trading Importing Company and our Traders

The Explorer's of Magellan Traders travel the globe to various countries searching for new Handi-Crafts, Furniture and Home Decor from the villages outside of the main cities. We deal directly with the families that live and work in the countries we visit. We enjoy getting to know and helping the villagers. It is a fun experience finding new unique one-of-a-kind handi crafts that the villigers are creating so they can survive and feed their families. We are amazed by their creativity and Artistic skills that help them create the most beautiful pieces seen done by hand. Our widespread network allows us to offer quality pieces originating from such remote places as Papua New Guinea,
and the Mid east, as well many parts of Africa, India, all over Asia and South America. We also deal with many traders who travel to the countries we are not able to visit yet, which is why we offer so many unique treasures.

Who is Magellan Traders as a Business?

Magellan Traders is not some Internet-only e-tailer, but a flesh-and-blood company,  located in Tucson, Arizona USA.
Whether you are a serious collector, or simply want to decorate your home with unusual Furniture and Home decor from around the world, you can find what you're looking for at Magellan Traders. Come visit our showroom now with two businesses and a combined display area of over 5000 square feet. We are pleased to introduce a new business: The Arizona Lifestyle Store owned and operated by Paul Buck and Kevan Daniel. They specialize in the Worldwide famous Softub Spa, and Heath Mate Infrared Saunas with a Lifetime Warranty. Questions? Give us a call at 1-800-311-4968, or come and visit our Tucson store at 1441 E 17th Street.
Kevan Daniel is the new owner of Magellan Trading.  Ryan Scott is the store manager and also takes care of the website.

Excellent Traders means Excellent Treasures!

Our traders build close relationships with villagers and artists. This ensures that our items are authentic, handmade and not manufactured nor aged artificially. That is why we can make a money-back guarantee on all our items.

At Magellan we offer only authentic, handmade and one-of-a-kind imported functional and decorative art. Our items really are treasures--Most of them are unique and no two are alike. Magellan Traders is not some Internet-only e-tailer, but a flesh-and-blood company, located in Tucson, Arizona that has been in business since 1996.
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Our Traders

The Traders who work with Magellan also travel the globe to their specified country to find new handi-crafts at unbeatable prices. Our success is built from the reputation of the traders with whom we work and our widespread network. For you this means quality pieces from such remote places in Guatemala, Peru, Mexico, Chzech Republic, Europe, and Italy.
  
Paul and Sonie Buck, also traders have earned an international reputation, first in handmade Southwest art, and more recently in authentic art pieces from Africa, the Orient, New Guinea and more remote and unusual places throughout the world. The Bucks are hailed as having developed one of the "best trading companies between the coasts."

New Guinea Dealers and Artist: Ron Perry and Carolyn Leigh & Anthropologist Doug Mehaffey

They spend several months a year in the field collecting in Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, China, Mexico and other places around the Pacific. They are also based in Tucson, AZ, USA. Since they live in the Southwest and travel primarily in countries that rim the Pacific, their site is named Art-Pacific.
Ron has traded with the tribal peoples of New Guinea since 1965. He started when he lived in Australia and saw artifacts from Papua New Guinea. Soon he was traveling by dugout canoe up the jungle rivers like the Sepik and hiking along narrow bush tracks in the Highland mountains. After various jobs with the Australian administration and running the PNG government's artifact center, Village Arts, Ron returned to the United States in 1978. He continued yearly collecting trips with his artist wife, Carolyn. In 1988 they traveled into Irian Jaya on the Indonesian side of the island of New Guinea. They trekked in the Ballem Valley where the first white man only arrived in 1938 and the local men still wear phallocrypts. They explored south into the Asmat, where the villagers were headhunters as recently as the 1950's and took canoes up the rivers into the back jungles where some of the people still practice cannibalism.
Ron and Carolyn expanded their areas of discovery into the rest of Indonesia, and more recently China. They still travel mainly by dugout canoe on their collecting trips into the remote jungle villages of New Guinea.
They continue to travel, collect and trade tribal art, primarily from Papua New Guinea. They are assisted by our mutual friend, anthropologist Doug Mehaffey.
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Ibrahim

Ibrahim hails from Foumban in Cameroon, West Africa. There he has been given the title El Hadj which means he has been to Mecca and is entitled to wear the headband that marks someone who has made that pilgrimage. Almost all of his time is spent in traveling - half the time in parts of Africa looking for special pieces, and the other half calling on selected galleries from New York to California. We feel lucky to trade with Ibrahim as his finds are wonderful -- especially Fang masks which are unsurpassed in quality.
 

Reputation plus Experience means Quality in this Business...

 
You would be amazed at the collective experience of Magellan traders, not only in our Tucson location, but in our family of native traders around the globe. Find many of their own cultural and trader stories here online! (coming soon)
We have many more traders with whom we network throughout the world. Look for more information on them in the next few months.


  Happy adventures -- and don't forget to honor your own creative pursuits!
You will be contributing to the next generation of traders looking for great stuff from YOUR continent!
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