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The Depository documents 3 techniques in French Polynesia (France); by risk level: 1 endangered, 2 vulnerable. Each record opens with a public summary; the full research record is free to view once registered.
The ancestral tattooing tradition of the Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia) in which the entire body -- including the face -- is progressively covered over years or decades with dense geometric patterns (kake · ipu · etua) encoded with…
The cultivation of Tahitian black pearls through pearl-oyster (Pinctada margaritifera, the black-lipped oyster) farming and surgical grafting — explicitly documented as French Polynesia's signature handicraft and a sector providing vital…
A decorative patchwork and appliqué textile tradition of Tahiti and the Society Islands (French Polynesia) in which cotton fabrics are cut into large symmetric pattern forms and appliquéd or pieced onto a ground cloth to create bedcovers…