Sprang bag, mochila, in fique (sisal) - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 100422 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 175.11 AGAVACEAE Agave sisalana | Entry Book Number | 3.2018 | |
| Artefact Name | Sprang bag, mochila, in fique (sisal) | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Colombia | TDWG Region | Colombia | ||
| Parts Held | Sprang bag, mochila, in fique (sisal) | Geography Description | From Barichara, department of Santander | ||
| Uses | Sprang bag, mochila, in fique (sisal)Use: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | Large shelving | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Mowat, Linda | Donor No | 3 | ||
| Donor Date | 23/05/2018 | Donor Notes | |||
| Collector | Mowat, Linda | Collector No | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | This was made in a similar way to that described in Mowat no. 1 (see also photographic slides 7-9). Unlike Dulcelina, Lucrecia (who was older) tended to sit with her back to the wall and her legs to one side of the chair, rather than on each side of it., She preferred to weave with fique (sisal): the family had their own fique plants, which they cleaned (a laborious process) and spun themselves on a wheel, torno; or they might buy the fique already cleaned and spin it themselves; or they might pay someon, e else to spin it at 1,000 pesos per lb. It took about a day to spin enough fique for a bag this size (it weighs just over 8 oz), and it also had to be plied to produce the two-ply yarn. Lucrecia's daughter-in-law Armenia (who worked in the village shop)d, id the spinning and her son Trino (who ran the farm) was very good at plying. They dyed the yarn for the coloured strips themselves (aniline dyes, though they used to use cayeno, hibiscus, for pink) and the coloured strips were warped in separately. (Dulc, elina, when making coloured cotton bags, space-dyed her yarn). Weaving the bag could take about two days, and then there was the sewing up and the handle to make. In all this bag could represent three or four days' work, plus the cost of fibre, dye and sp, inning if they paid someone else to do it; yet they charged only 4,000 pesos for it, at a time when a man could expect to earn 6,000 pesos per day for basic building labour. | ||||