Bag of chambira palm leaf fibre - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 99453 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 187.00 PALMAE Astrocaryum chambira | Entry Book Number | 5.2015.2 | |
| Artefact Name | Bag of chambira palm leaf fibre | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Colombia | TDWG Region | Colombia | ||
| Parts Held | Bag of chambira palm leaf fibre | Geography Description | Lower Caqueta, Tikuna Communityx0Dx0AGeography inferred from plant distribution (2019) | ||
| Uses | Bag of chambira palm leaf fibreUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | Large shelving | 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: | Artisan: Reinaldo da Silva. This bag is woven by the Tikuna people of the Colombian Amazon with fibers obtained from unexpanded leaves of the chambira palm, Astrocaryum chambira. This palm, the most important source of fiber in western Amazonia, was inp, rocess of domestication by the time of the European conquest. See research paper Garcia, N., Galeano, G., Mesa, L., Castano, N. Balslev, H., Bernal, R., 2015. Management of the palm Astrocaryum chambira Burret (Arecaceae) in northwest Amazon. Acta Bota, nica Brasilica 29(1): 45-57, 2015. | ||||