Sprang bag, chakara, in fique (sisal) - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 100427 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 175.11 AGAVACEAE Agave sisalana | Entry Book Number | 3.2018 | |
| Artefact Name | Sprang bag, chakara, in fique (sisal) | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Colombia | TDWG Region | Colombia | ||
| Parts Held | Sprang bag, chakara, in fique (sisal) | Geography Description | Sierra Nevada del Cocuy in NE Colombia. | ||
| Uses | Sprang bag, chakara, in fique (sisal)Use: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | Large shelving | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Mowat, Linda | Donor No | 5 | ||
| Donor Date | 23/05/2018 | Donor Notes | Collected by Ann Osborn (an English anthropologist who lived in Colombia) probably mid 1960s to mid 1970s. Ann died in 1988. The bag was given to Linda Mowat by Marianne Cardale Schrimpff some years after Ann's death. | ||
| Collector | Osborn, Ann | Collector No | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Made on a frame by Kubaruwa men of the Sierra Nevada del Cocuy in NE Colombia. The Kubaruwa are a clan of the U'wa indigenous people.x0Dx0Ax0Dx0AData from : Ann Osborn 2009. The Four Seasons of the U'wa: A Chibcha Ritual Ecology in the Colombian Andes. Wantage: S, ean Kingston Publishing. x0Dx0Ap 13 The Kubaruwa used to give sisal bags to the Guahibo people in exchange for shells for women's necklaces, and for teaching them how to make steel arrowheads.x0Dx0Ap17 Sisal bags were traditional trade goods and traded in the whi, te villages of Güicán and Cocuy in the Sierra Nevada del Cocuy for salt, axes, bush-knives and woollen ponchos.x0Dx0Ap39 All U'wa clans made sisal bags, for their own use and for exchangex0Dx0Ap128 Sprang sisal bags, chakara, are made by men using a rectangular f, rame about 80 cm high and 50 cm wide, which is rested on the ground with a stone at the base. They spin the string themselves. The Kubaruwa don't use these bags, they are made for exchange. Hammocks are also made in sprang; these are used by the Kubaruwaa, nd also exchanged.x0Dx0Ap150 In the past, the Kubaruwa left trade goods at menhir sites, moving from one site to another. On the return journey they collected products from other clans which had been left in the same place. 'The Kubaruwa say that the goods th, ey leave change into the goods that they collect', therefore sisal bags turned into the hallucinogen called akwa. x0Dx0A | ||||