Buibui — Naoero Weaving Tradition
The Nauruan buibui weaving tradition — the production of the traditional Nauruan pandanus mats and woven objects on the island nation of Nauru (the world's third smallest country) whose specific pandanus and coconut fiber weaving represents the most endangered craft tradition in the CRAFT archive in terms of practitioner community size. The Nauruan weaver reads the pandanus strip quality through the same split-and-flex assessment as I-Kiribati (CRAFT-0677) but calibrated to the Nauruan island pandanus variety.
Risk level: Critically Endangered · Not listed
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