Hat with 'stepped wall' weave - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 99873 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 187.00 PALMAE Prestoea acuminata | Entry Book Number | 24.2017 | |
| Artefact Name | Hat with 'stepped wall' weave | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Colombia | TDWG Region | Colombia | ||
| Parts Held | Hat with 'stepped wall' weave | Geography Description | Boyaca, Gachantivax0Dx0ALocality revised 2019 | ||
| Uses | Hat with 'stepped wall' weaveUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | Large shelving | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Bernal R | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 21/08/2017 | Donor Notes | Palm Ethnobotany Museum, Quindio Botanical Garden, Colombiax0Dx0ADonor reformatted 2019 | ||
| Collector | Fernanda Casas L | Collector No | 7 | ||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 05/12/2015 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Currently made for craft shops as a hat for sun protection, and formerly used by campesinos when hot pots were loaded onto the head for carrying. Fibre extracted from the pinnae of unexpanded leaves of palmicho (Prestoea acuminata), some with the centra, l vein. Sewn by hand with thread of fique (Furcraea andina). Made by both men and women, but men hide that they weave and do it alone in their homes. It is called stepped wall because the vein included in the fabric reinforces it, gives it more hardnes, s. The hat is also called 'kills rabbits' as the campesinos would throw their hats at them hoping to hit and catch them with the rigid rims. | ||||
| Determinations: | 175.03 ASPARAGACEAE Furcraea andina Trel. 187.00 PALMAE Prestoea acuminata (Willd.) H.E. Moore | ||||