Totally unlike other nativities you may have in your collection or a wonderful starter piece, this Colorful Soapstone Nativity with Hut is a beautiful representation of the birth of Jesus Christ.  The detailed hut with removable roof serves as a storage piece as well for the brightly colored Mary, Joseph, and Baby Jesus.  You'll love sharing the story behind the creation of this piece when you share the story of Christmas with loved ones.
 
Every item of our Soapstone collection starts as a huge hunk of stone, mined and hauled form the lushly green hills of southwestern Kenya, before being sawed and hacked by machetes into smaller chunks of soapstone.  Master artisans chisel and carve every piece into its final rough shape, and then more artisans wet sand until it is completely smooth.  Then the hot Kenyan sun dries the soapstone items before different artisans paint or dye them and hand-etch every single message.  So much time and talent, so many hands and so very much love goes into every single soapstone piece.
 
Purchasing just one soapstone piece or all of the Kisii Soapstone pieces provides so many jobs and a sustainable, stable income that provides for each woman artisan's family and the education and university fees for their children in a country where employment is too often nearly impossible for women to find.

The pieces are hand carved out of stone, sanded, painted, and then etched. The roof of the hut is removable. The hut stands approximately 6 inches tall. Mary and Joseph are approximately 2 inches tall.