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Why Panama Hats Are Misnamed

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 6, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 45.

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Why Panama Hats Are Misnamed

By the way, why should they be called Panama hats? Panama never had anything to do with them except as a distributing point in the trade. They are plaited in Central America and Colombia, but the chief center of the industry is in Manavi Province, Ecuador, where they originated nearly three centuries ago, and where the finest straw hats in the world are still made. If they were called Manavi hats, the name would be historically correct, and not misleading like the present appellation.—N. Y. Sun.