Hat made from split leaflets - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 75787 | |||||
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Plant Name | 187.00 PALMAE Ravenea dransfieldii | Entry Book Number | 21.1998.5 | |
| Artefact Name | Hat made from split leaflets | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Madagascar | TDWG Region | Madagascar | ||
| Parts Held | Hat made from split leaflets | Geography Description | Madagascar, Africa, Western Indian Ocean, Ifanadiana | ||
| Uses | Hat made from split leafletsUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Donor No | ||||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | ||||
| Collector | Dransfield J | Collector No | |||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 00/11/1994 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Hat which, together with item 75788, illustrates a dwindling resource. Worn popularly by both men and women in the Ifanadiana area. This is a fine quality hat made with split leaflets of one of the two sources of 'lakatra' fibre (representative collectio, n from the same area Beentje 4532 (November, 1991). The other source is Ravenea lakatra, lined with Cyperaceous fibre (?Lepironia articulata), sewn with plastic thread and decorated with red cotton thread. Purchased in market in Ifanadiana in 1994 when, such hats were still available but the source of palm fibre very scarce. | ||||
| Determinations: | 187.00 PALMAE Ravenea dransfieldii Beentje 199.00 CYPERACEAE Lepironia articulata | ||||