Standard guide to Cuba : a new and complete guide to the island of Cuba, with maps, illustrations, routes of travel, history, and an English-Spanish phrase book . he women mantillas, Cuban drawn work, hand-made lacesand embroideries; and for the men there are walking sticks of mahogany,acana, ebony, royal palm or other native woods, or of a sharks vertebra;;Panama hats (gipi gapi), or the immense headgear of the Cuban country-man, called the guajiro, high-crowned and broad-brimmed, turned up infront and turned down behind. It is of braided palm leaves, and if we gointo the country we may perha
Standard guide to Cuba : a new and complete guide to the island of Cuba, with maps, illustrations, routes of travel, history, and an English-Spanish phrase book . he women mantillas, Cuban drawn work, hand-made lacesand embroideries; and for the men there are walking sticks of mahogany,acana, ebony, royal palm or other native woods, or of a sharks vertebra;;Panama hats (gipi gapi), or the immense headgear of the Cuban country-man, called the guajiro, high-crowned and broad-brimmed, turned up infront and turned down behind. It is of braided palm leaves, and if we gointo the country we may perhaps see a native Cuban hat factory. Theguajiro makes a good waste basket for papers. Among other native pro-ductions are belts and pocketbooks made of the skin of the maja, a harm-less Cuban snake of the constrictor species, which sometimes grows to alength of twenty feet or more. Then there is some fascinating featherwork, picturing flowers, birds and cock fights; with photographs andcolored views, jewelry, native preserves of guava jelly and marmalade,limes, mammey, sour-sop, cocoanut, orange, almond, mango, zapote andother fruits peculiar to the we may PERU APS SEE A NATIVE CUBAN HAT FACTORY. OPJSPO AND OREILLY. 45
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