Bag woven from chambira palm fibre - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 99454 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 187.00 PALMAE Astrocaryum chambira | Entry Book Number | 5.2015.3 | |
| Artefact Name | Bag woven from chambira palm fibre | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Colombia | TDWG Region | Colombia | ||
| Parts Held | Bag woven from chambira palm fibre | Geography Description | Lower Caqueta, Tikuna Communityx0Dx0AGeography inferred from plant distribution (2019) | ||
| Uses | Bag woven from chambira palm 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: | Bag woven by the Tikuna people of the Colombian Amazon with fibers obtained from unexpanded leaves of the chambira palm. This palm, the most important source of fiber in western Amazonia,was in process of domestication by the time of the European conques, t. Artisan: Gloria Cayetano. 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 Botanica Brasilica 29(1): 45-57, 2015. | ||||