Argentina · Rush-fiber basketry and rawhide braiding
Cestería en Junquillo / Trenzado en Cuero Crudo
Two formally recognized traditional crafts of Mendoza province's arid Cuyo region, both designated intangible cultural heritage of the province: junquillo (rush) basketry, practiced since ancestral times by the Huarpe people around the Lagunas de Guanacache — the lakes historically formed by the Mendoza and San Juan rivers north of the city — and trenzado en cuero crudo, the braiding of untanned rawhide, both concentrated in Lavalle department. Rush fiber, described by contemporary institutional sources as the very predecessor of all basketry techniques, expands and grows nearly waterproof on contact with water. The two crafts, alongside horizontal-loom weaving, form the three traditions the Mercado Artesanal Mendocino (MAM) — one of Argentina's oldest artisan institutions, in continuous operation since a 1974 subsidy from Argentina's national MATRA (Mercado de Artesanías Tradicionales Argentinas) fund — formally purchases directly from rural artisans across the province's Secano Mendocino, paying producers 70% of each piece's sale value.
Risk level: Vulnerable · Not Applicable — no UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage inscription exists for these crafts at time of writing, though both are formally designated intangible cultural heritage (patrimonio cultural intangible) of Mendoza province through the province's own domestic cultural-heritage framework
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