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The Depository documents 3 techniques in Vanuatu; by risk level: 2 critically endangered, 1 vulnerable. Each record opens with a public summary; the full research record is free to view once registered.
Nalot is the woven pandanus mat tradition of northern Vanuatu — produced by women from pandanus leaves in a specific twill pattern using a body-tension backstrap method that differs from the ground weaving of Yolŋu (CRAFT-0657) in that the…
Sand drawing (nalot in some Vanuatu languages) is the Vanuatu tradition of drawing complex geometric figures in sand or soft earth in a single continuous line — the finger never lifting from the surface from start to finish.
The carving of tam tam — towering wooden slit-gong drums documented as among the largest freestanding musical instruments on Earth, and explicitly identified in contemporary Vanuatu craft-tourism literature as the country's most iconic…