In the present day, the Punu are noted for their cloth made of palm fiber, and for iron weaponry.
The woven cane seat is supported by palm fiber.
They brought back spices and silk and also woven furniture made from a flexible palm fiber called rattan.
These, along-with palm fibers and horse-hair fern are used to build hanging baskets.
Without palm fibers, construction of ropes and fishing nets halted.
Around 1910, businessmen tried to manufacture brushes and brooms made of palm fiber.
He was clad only in a loincloth, with sandals made of palm fibers.
The stakes were tied together with palm fibers and daubed with a thick coating of mud.
The cordage found at Key Marco, probably of palm fiber, was primarily used in fishing nets.
This term could have been applied to the Yaguas by the Spanish explorers because much of the native clothing is made of palm fiber.