Argentina · Textile / Basketry
Yica (the bag/net woven from chaguar/bromeliad fiber, in Wichí terminology)
A plant-fiber basketry tradition transplanted from the Chaco interior to urban Rosario, Santa Fe province, by Wichí migrant weavers, most fully documented through named artisan Ruperta Pérez, who learned the craft as a child in Miraflores, in Chaco's Impenetrable region, and migrated to Rosario in 1985. Working with totora reed gathered locally within the city and other regional fibers, Pérez and fellow weavers have adapted the ancestral technique to depict distinctly Santa Fe-specific imagery — including local fish species and "la bota de Santa Fe," the province's emblematic riding-boot motif — producing a living case of an inherited Indigenous craft reshaped by and for its new urban home.
Risk level: Vulnerable · Not UNESCO-inscribed; Argentina is a State Party to the 2003 ICH Convention
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