Gathering Cabbage Palm - Painting on Canvas

Gathering Cabbage Palm - Painting on Canvas

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Cabbage palm is a very important resource for our people. It provides material for shelter, food and fibre craft.  We gather the palm frond from a cabbage palm tree and we separate it till we get the inner most strands. Then we let it dry, dye and roll the strands on the thigh and then weave it by hand with no loom. We weave the strands to make dilly bags and they take weeks to prepare. Being able to weave dilly bags is a very important skill for our women. Dilly Bags are also an important totem.