I second the vote for panga panga. I've worked with it before and it
had the same figuring as the wood in your pic and it was prone to
splitting. My pieces were a little more brown and a bit less mauve than
the wood in you pictures, but of course there can certainly be color
variations between pieces as odin mentioned.

You can see a pic of a hairpin I made out of panga panga he

http://www.blueheronwoods.com/pictur...ga%20Panga.jpg

The pieces I had came from East Africa.

Emily