Leaf plates are eating plates, bowls or trenchers made with broad leaves, particularly in India and Nepal. In India they are known as Patravali, Pattal...

container. The cleaned banana leaf is often used as a placemat; cut banana-leaf sheets placed on rattan, bamboo or clay plates are used to serve food. Decorated...

Leaf plate montipora (Montipora capricornis), also known as vase coral, cap coral, or plating montipora, is a type of small polyp stony (SPS) coral in...

Representation Assamese 'Paan-Tamul' tradition. A Phoenix wing shaped- betel leaf plate in Vietnam. Betel bag, New Guinea, nineteenth century MHNT. A Chinese...

banana leaf) to make a leaf-plate for serving a meal. Up until a century ago, a would-be-son-in-law was tested on his dexterity in making this plate and...

dried fallen leaves are collected and hot-pressed into disposable palm leaf plates and bowls. In Indonesia and Malaysia there are numerous place names using...

ceremony is followed by a game, where the baby is offered a banana leaf or silver plate which contains certain objects: a small amount of soil (symbolizing...

The plate lunch (Hawaiian: pā mea ʻai) is a quintessentially Hawaiian meal, roughly analogous to Southern U.S. meat-and-threes. The combination of American...

Phuchka in a leaf plate in Kolkata....

occupation is making leaf plates, known as pattal and Dauna. They are described by Russel & Hiralal as household servants and makers of leaf plates, from whom Brahmins...