1875 20 114 The following articles can be obtained there..: India-rubber, sugar, tobacco, coffee, ginger, rafia-fibre, [etc.].
1925 E. A. Powell xii. 241 They [sc. cowries]..are generally carried strung on a length of raffia-fibre, several hundred to a string.
1994 21 458 Raffia fibres are connected and put in line by the act of weaving.