Hat showing plaiting methods - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 73304 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 189.00 CYCLANTHACEAE Asplundia insignis | Entry Book Number | 3.1903 | |
| Artefact Name | Hat showing plaiting methods | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Jamaica | TDWG Region | Jamaica | ||
| Parts Held | Hat showing plaiting methods | Geography Description | Jamaica, Southern America, Caribbean | ||
| Uses | Hat showing plaiting methodsUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | Large shelving | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Fawcett W | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 16/01/1903 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Notes: | Note from JHH (May 30th 1904) as follows: Panama Hats, Carludovica insignis, grows in the damp forests of Ecuador, Peru and New Grenada, and yields the straw from which Panama Hats, cigar cases etc are made. Another species Carludovica jamaicensis, known, as the Ippi-appa plant is named after the island in which it is indigenous where it grows in sheltered valleys near water. The method of preparing the straw is to take a young unopened leaf and divide it down the centre leaving a portion of stalk attach, ed to each half. From the two sides of each half the ribs or nerves are torn away. After being boiled in water to enable the segments of the leaf to be stripped off down to the stalk, the straw is exposed to the action of the sun and dew for three days, and nights, the alternate bleaching and drying constitute the curing process. A leaf of the ippi-appa plant produces one head of straw, and a hat requires from ten to twelve heads. See Pharm. Journ. (4) XVI 89, and Bull. of Bot. Dept. Jamaica 9.145. Ca, rludovica jamaicensis Lodd. Ind. occ. (sp. dub.) in Addenda et Emendanda of K.Ludex?x0Dx0APart of Plants + People exhibition Museum No 1, Kew. May 1998 to May 2016. | ||||
| Determinations: | 189.00 CYCLANTHACEAE Asplundia insignis (Duchess. ex Griseb.) Harl. 189.00 CYCLANTHACEAE Carludovica insignis Duchess. | ||||