Is there a craft native to your region of the planet?
The Merrie Monarch hula festival has many craft fairs that go along with it. There are many native crafts to see: musical gourds, drums, items made from native koa trees, and, my favorite, feather work.
Feathers were highly prized in ancient Hawaii for their beauty, and there were specialized feather collectors. They would put very sticky substances on a limb next to some bait to catch birds with very rare breast feathers. I’m sorry, but I’ve forgotten the name of the birds. They had only two yellow feathers. They would get stuck in the sticky stuff. The collector would come along and pluck the two yellow breast feathers and set the birds free to grow more breast feathers.
So those capes you see in pictures of Hawaiian royalty required thousands and thousands of bird catches to produce.
Today, Hawaiian feather work is still practiced. If you click the links on the site I’ve linked, you can see the beautiful feather hatbands that are so popular here.
Are there native crafts where you live?
Aloha pumehana.
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WarCraft. Especially the Blitzkrieg kind.
The Shaker Village in Pleasant Hill, KY has all sorts of hand crafted stuff; baskets, furniture, brooms, stacked oval boxes, toys… all kinds of home items made the exact way they have been for centuries. There is also a large community of hand-made quilt crafters. I guess there are some types that are native to the Appalachian region.
There’s some really beautiful stuff out there.
Yes, the doctors slightly further north of me are very good at patching up victims of the infamous Glasgow kiss, fine needlework indeed.
Woodcraft and ceramics are popular in Wales but I honestly can’t think of anything that’s unique to Wales and done nowhere else, except for souvenir items to particular places.
Unless singing counts as a craft, in which case we have the Welsh male voice choir
Making baskets is known world wide, but the materials and patterns are generally specific to the region. The same can be said for pottery, weaving, and clothing styles.
Tipi (teepee) is a Lakota word used to describe a dwelling associated with Native American dwellings, although the dwellings the Choctaw lived in were cane frame and grass roof houses.
Unfortunately the native crafts in this neck of the woods are options, futures, mortgage-backed-securities, collateralized-debt-obligations and the ever-popular credit-default-swaps.
Very little.
I live in Florida, which has little native culture that isn’t available outside the state. The Cherokee nation was enormous. There is the Suwanee tribe in the southern part of the state, but I don’t know much about them.
The oldest thing still standing in Florida is St. Augustine, which was built by Spaniards in the 1500s. Not a whole lot by the way of native craft going on here, unless you count Hemingway beards and Key Lime Pies.
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