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Para rubber scholarship
With the machadiño, an axe-like tool, grooves are made in the bark of the rubber tree. Underneath a tichela, a small bowl, is hung to catch the latex. This is collected in a valde (galvanized bucket) for further processing. The buyon, a conical earthenware stove with a narrow opening at the top, is used to fire a certain type of palm kernel that produces the right kind of smoke. The collected late…
Type of item
- Object Type: wallet
- wallet
- Wallet
Date
- voor 1964
Medium
- Material: rubber
- rubber
- Natural rubber
Type of item
- Object Type: wallet
- wallet
- Wallet
Date
- voor 1964
Medium
- Material: rubber
- rubber
- Natural rubber
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Creation date
- 1964
Provenance
- 1967-05-23
- Aankoop
Identifier
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/108765
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Is related to
- ambergris
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-03-11T07:13:13.286Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-10-15T07:33:21.569Z