Pava (Puerto Rico)

The pava is a straw hat made out of the leaves of the Puerto Rican hat palm. It is normally associated with the Puerto Rican jíbaro and with the Popular Democratic Party (PPD).[1][2][3][4]

Ordinary Puerto Rican Pava

Children and adults wear the pava when they dress up like a jíbaro.[5][6]

  • The late Ángel O. Berríos drinking coffee and wearing his pava during a political campaign
    The late Ángel O. Berríos drinking coffee and wearing his pava during a political campaign
  • Photograph of a jíbaro wearing a pava on the wall of an old hacienda in Lares
    Photograph of a jíbaro wearing a pava on the wall of an old hacienda in Lares

See also

References
  1. Duany, Jorge. "Nación, migración, identidad: Sobre el transnacionalismo a propósito de Puerto Rico" (PDF). Transnacionalismo Migracio e Identidades: 69–76. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-11-24. Retrieved 2015-11-23.
  2. Torres-Robles, Carmen L. (1999). "La mitificación y desmitificación del jíbaro como símbolo de la identidad nacional puertorriqueña". Bilingual Review: La Revista Bilingüe. 24 (3): 241–253.
  3. Moreiro, Julián (2000). Costumbristas de Hispanoamérica: Cuadros, leyendas y tradiciones. Mexico City: EDAF. pp. 289–90. ISBN 8441407037.
  4. "Las mezclas del pac" (PDF). Arriba: Publicación del Partido Popular para sus líderes. 1 (5): 4. 1960.
  5. Clemente, Yaritza Rivera; Vocero, El (29 July 2019). "Jolgorio y fiesta fuera de La Fortaleza". El Vocero de Puerto Rico (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 August 2019.
  6. Milagros, María de los (16 July 2019). "Jíbaro de nueve años lleva protesta a Fortaleza". Metro (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 August 2019.
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