Pyang' or bamboo container from 'bans' bamboo - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 99758 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 200.00 POACEAE Dendrocalamus hamiltonii | Entry Book Number | 11.2017 | |
| Artefact Name | Pyang' or bamboo container from 'bans' bamboo | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Nepal | TDWG Region | Nepal | ||
| Parts Held | Pyang' or bamboo container from 'bans' bamboo | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | Pyang' or bamboo container from 'bans' bambooUse: User: | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Dunsmore, Susi | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 10/04/2017 | Donor Notes | see: Susi Dunsmore 2016. Notes on Nepal's creative basketry. ISBN x0Dx0A0-9552900-1-5 p 28 | ||
| Collector | Dunsmore, Susi | Collector No | |||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
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| Notes: | Made traditionally by Newars from Pyangaon. Originally they were made as grain measures, but are now used for storage. Gajurel 1984 cited by Dunsmore 2016 - The making of a pyang requires art and skill: after cutting the bamboo into sections between t, he nodes and cutting off the outer layer ('choya'), later to be used in sewing, the bamboo is split lengthwise. By soaking and heating, the rounded sections are carefully opened up and sliced into sheets which are formed into the required cylinder shapes, . Thee are sewn together with the 'choya' strips before the base sheet is sewn on. | ||||