Basket - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 99452 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Image | Plant Name | 187.00 PALMAE Astrocaryum standleyanum | Entry Book Number | 5.2015.1 | |
| Artefact Name | Basket | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Colombia | TDWG Region | Colombia | ||
| Parts Held | Basket | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | BasketUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Gardiner L | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 13/10/2015 | Donor Notes | Donor reformatted 2019 | ||
| Collector | Gardiner L | Collector No | |||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 00/06/2015 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | The wounaan people of the Pacific lowlands of Colombia weave these baskets with fiber obtained from the guerregue palm, Astrocaryum standleyanum, using a technique introduced from Botswana by a Spanish missionary in the 1970s. See Bernal, R., Galeano, G., , Garcia, N., Palacios, A. 2013. Botswanan palm basketry among the Wounaan of western Colombia: lessons from an intercontinental technology transfer. Tropical Conservation Science 6(21): 221-229. Also Garcia, N., Galeano, G., Bernal, R., Balslev, H. 2, 013. Management of Astrocaryum standleyanum (Arecaceae) for Handicraft Production in Colombia. www.ethnobotanyjournal.org/vol11/i1547-3465-11-085.pdf. | ||||