United States · Hide Craft / Painting
Wizípaŋ (Lakota term for parfleche-type rawhide container)
The painting of bold, symmetrical geometric designs onto stiff, dampened rawhide before it is folded into an envelope-style carrying case, developed to meet the portable-storage needs of horse-mounted nomadic Plains life.
Risk level: Vulnerable · Not Applicable — the United States is not a State Party to the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage; no US technique can be formally ICH-inscribed regardless of significance.
A distinctive rattan and cane basketry tradition woven over a wooden mold with a solid turned wood base, developed by bored crewmen stationed for weeks at a time aboard the Nantucket Shoals lightship from the mid-19th century, later…
The hand-hammering (repoussé) of sheet copper into hollow, three-dimensional wind-direction ornaments — roosters, running horses, ships, and other figures — for barns, churches, and civic buildings, a colonial New England tradition dating…
A fine twined basketry and matting tradition using split spruce root and pounded cedar bark, producing tightly woven baskets, hats, mats, and clothing elements historically watertight enough to hold liquids, decorated with false-embroidery…
The United States side of the cross-border Coast Salish weaving tradition (see CRAFT-1712 for the Canadian/British Columbia side), practiced by Coast Salish nations around Puget Sound and the wider Salish Sea in Washington State, using the…
Densely beaded horse regalia — masks, martingales (chest ornaments), and saddle blankets — reflecting the central historical importance of the horse in Crow and Cheyenne social and ceremonial life, among the largest-scale beadwork objects…
The construction of feathered dance bustles and associated regalia worn in Southern Plains ceremonial and powwow dance, combining regulated eagle-feather handling under federal permit law with beadwork, hide, and dyed-feather decorative…
The construction of the mahzam, a specifically designed leather ceremonial belt worn by performers of Al-Ardha, Qatar's traditional sword dance, engineered with leather straps running diagonally over the shoulder to a waist belt,…
The hand-crafting of leather goods, directly documented as reflecting Qatar's rich leather-crafting traditions and the broader Qatari cultural principle of making use of every resource available.
Hard-wearing everyday lacquerware from Kawatsura, Yuzawa City, in southern Akita.
The graded treatment and working of raw horsehide into knives, rebenques (riding crops), tientos (fine plaiting cords), saddle components, and mounted-goods (mates, bottles, bags) in rural Entre Ríos province, part of Argentina's Litoral…
The hand-crafting of leather shoes and related products in Palmyra, using a genuinely distinctive locally produced silk thread called Khayt Al-Kharaza (also known as Khayt Al-Sareed), made from sheep intestines and treated with beeswax…
The Hezhen people (赫哲族 Hèzhézú) of Heilongjiang province are one of China's smallest ethnic minorities — fewer than 5,000 people — and their fish-skin clothing tradition is one of the most singular material techniques in the database.