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The Depository documents 12 techniques in Honduras; by risk level: 1 endangered, 7 vulnerable, 3 stable, 1 thriving. Each record opens with a public summary; the full research record is free to view once registered.
A second, technically distinct Lenca pottery tradition centered in Cofradía, part of the municipality of Yamaranguila in Intibucá department, in which hand-built, unglazed vessels are fired in low-temperature wood kilns for 22 continuous…
A pre-Columbian hand-pottery tradition of the Lenca — Lepa Wiran, "Descendants of the Jaguar," Honduras's largest Indigenous group — practiced by women in and around La Campa, Lempira department, using a stone-burnishing technique for…
A third distinct Lenca pottery tradition, centered in the 1579 Spanish colonial mining town of Ojojona south of Tegucigalpa, distinguished by a hand-forming quality-control technique found nowhere else documented in the CRAFT archive:…
Hand-carving of jade (jadeite) figures, ornaments, and jewelry in Copán, Honduras, continuing a tradition documented archaeologically at the ancient Maya city of Copán, where jade was worked into finely sculpted funerary and ceremonial…
The cultivation, curing, fermentation, and hand-rolling (torcido) of premium cigars from Cuban-seed criollo and corojo tobacco, centered on the Jamastrán Valley near Danlí and the older Santa Rosa de Copán tobacco region.
The making of the paired (sometimes triple) Garifuna hand drums — primera and segunda, occasionally joined by a tercera — hollowed from a single solid trunk of mahogany or mayflower hardwood, headed with deer, sheep, or pig skin, and…
The construction of the pink- or white-faced wire-mesh masks worn in Wanaragua, the Garifuna Christmas-season dance whose costume and choreography satirically mock colonial slave masters — a craft built from wire mesh, metal strips, paint,…
A self-taught primitivist painting tradition rendering Honduran street scenes, market life, and small-town landscapes in bold, direct color, founded by José Antonio Velásquez (1906–1983), widely regarded as the founder of Honduran…
A women-led reed-weaving tradition of Santa Bárbara department using junco, a flexible wild wetland reed sun-dried and hand-frayed with the fingernails into fine threads, then stitched with a cow-bone needle over a wooden hat-block and…
The hand-carving, with axe and hand tools, of single-log dugout canoes by Miskito builders of Honduras's La Mosquitia rainforest region — river-form pipantes and keeled sea-going duris — within a canoe-trade network documented continuously…
The hand-cutting, punching, and saddle-stitching of full-grain leather into bags, wallets, belts, and accessories, founded in 1974 in San Pedro Sula by a 23-year-old craftsman known as Danilo, who began with a hammer, a hole punch, and a…
Deep-relief wood carving on furniture, trunks, boxes, mirror frames, and standalone panels, centered on the colonial-era artisan town of Valle de Ángeles near Tegucigalpa.