Western Apache basketry tradition (Apachean-language terminology varies by band)
Three-rod coiled basketry using willow foundation rods and black devil's-claw and red yucca-root splints for pattern, producing burden baskets, deep storage ollas, and trays that are among the most technically demanding coiled basketry forms in the Southwest.
Risk level: Critically Endangered · 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.
Hand-stamped and turquoise-set silver jewelry — concha belts, squash blossom necklaces, bracelets, and bolo ties — developed after Diné smiths learned metalworking from Mexican plateros in the mid-19th century.
Weft-faced tapestry weaving on a vertical, frameless loom, producing the geometric rugs and blankets that are the Navajo Nation's best-known textile art, still passed mother to daughter within extended families.
Carving of cottonwood-root figures representing katsina spirits, traditionally given to children as teaching objects and today also produced as fine-art collector pieces, with the range of appropriate subjects governed by religious…
Hand-coiled, stone-polished pottery painted with black and orange mineral pigments in geometric designs revived from 14th–17th-century Sikyatki ruins by the Hopi-Tewa potter Nampeyo beginning in the 1890s.
A Zuni-originated lapidary tradition in which turquoise and other stones are cut into slender needle-shaped or channel-set pieces and arranged in dense, precise mosaic patterns within a silver framework, developed as a distinctive Zuni…
Small hand-carved stone animal figures, often finished with an inlaid 'heartline' running from mouth to heart and sometimes an offering bundle, carved to hold and channel the spirit of the depicted animal for protection, healing, or…
A technique unique in the world — the concentric weaving of dyed horsehair (crin) combined with a vegetable fiber called Ixtle into small, colorful decorative pieces (butterflies, flowers, bookmarks, and jewelry), practiced almost entirely…
The multi-stage cultivation, stripping, and weaving of iraca (toquilla) palm fiber into the sombrero aguadeño, a fine white straw hat handcrafted in Aguadas, Caldas — the town at the heart of Colombia's coffee-growing region — and famous…
The plaiting and construction of wide-brimmed sun hats from dwarf palm leaf (palma) in the Algarve interior, using the same split-and-braid palmito technique documented for the Canary Islands (CRAFT-1097) but applied specifically to hat…
Baskets and woven willow objects made from cultivated osier (Salix viminalis) grown in the Sologne wetlands south of the Loire.
The weaving of piaçava (Attalea funifera, a palm species endemic to Bahia's coastal Atlantic Forest) into baskets, trays, and sousplats, and the carving of the same palm's seed (coco de piaçava) into 'vegetable ivory' jewelry, practiced by…
The braiding of caña flecha (Gynerium sagittatum) palm fiber into the sombrero vueltiao, Colombia's most iconic national symbol, practiced by the Zenú people of Córdoba and Sucre departments for roughly 1,000 years.