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1961.7.32

Hank of fibre.

1961.7.32

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Collection type
Object
Description
Hank of fibre.
Person
Field collector Unknown Collector
PRM source Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
PRM source Frank Norman Howes
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1961
Date collected
By 1961
Acquisition information
Donated: 1961
Materials and processes
Material Agave Fibre Plant
Dimensions
Length: max 260 mm hank
Object numbers
Accession number: 1961.7.32
Research and responses

New Grenada is the old name for Colombia. In Colombia the name PITA is sometimes given to the fibre of AGAVE AMERICANA. (LM.)

The Viceroyalty of New Granada was a Spanish viceroyalty, established temporarily between 1717 and 1724 and permanently in 1740, that included present Colombia, Panama (after 1751), Ecuador, and Venezuela and had its capital at Santa Fé (present-day Bogotá). [Encyclopædia Britannica Online] [CF 4/9/2000]

Search terms: Cordage, Specimen, Plant, Cord

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