Results for "Tangi"
30 traditions found.
- Waitangi Day Calendar day
- Tangi Glossary
🇳🇿 Waitangi, New Zealand and 2 moreWaitangi DayTe Rā o Waitangi
New Zealand's national day remembering the 1840 founding agreement.Ceremony · Breakfast
🇨🇱 Santiago, Chile and 3 moreCueca
A courtship dance of Chile and the Andes where partners trace circles with handkerchiefs to mimic a rooster and hen.Performance
🇪🇹 Ethiopia and 1 moreGadaa
An eight-year democratic governance cycle practiced by the Oromo people of Ethiopia and Kenya.Ceremony
🇪🇸 Valls, SpainCastell
A Catalan tradition of building multi-level human towers at festivals, requiring strength, balance, and community solidaPerformance
🇰🇷 Jeju, South KoreaHaenyeo해녀
Female free-divers of Jeju Island who harvest seafood from the ocean.Table custom
🇪🇸 Seville, SpainFlamenco
The song, guitar and dance of Andalusia, kept by gitano and other Spanish families.Performance
🇭🇷 CroatiaLacemaking in CroatiaČipkarstvo u Hrvatskoj
Hand-worked lace in three styles, kept in Croatian towns from the coast to the northCraft
🇭🇷 Omiš, CroatiaKlapa
Unaccompanied harmony singing from Dalmatia, built by groups of friendsPerformance
🇸🇾 Aleppo, SyriaAleppo soapصابون غَار (ṣābūn ghar)
A hard olive-oil and laurel soap, hand-made in Aleppo and aged for monthsCraft
🇳🇿 Waitangi, New ZealandPōwhiri
A formal Māori welcome onto a marae, with calls, speeches, song and the hongiEtiquette
🇮🇹 ItalyCantu a tenorecantu a tenòre
Four men singing in a tight circle, a vocal art of Sardinia's Barbagia hillsPerformance
🇷🇸 Serbia and 3 moreKoloКоло
A South Slavic circle dance of linked hands, kept at weddings and gatheringsPerformance
🇬🇪 Tbilisi, GeorgiaSupraსუფრა
A Georgian feast led by a toastmaster, where toasts, wine and food carry the mealTable custom · Feasts and festival meals
🇦🇱 Gjirokastër, Albania and 2 moreAlbanian iso-polyphonyIso-polifonia
Multi-part Albanian singing with a held drone, kept across the southPerformance
🇦🇲 Yerevan, Armenia and 5 moreKhachkarխաչքար
A carved stone cross raised as a memorial, a grave marker and a prayer in stoneCraft
🇭🇷 Zagreb, Croatia and 1 moreLicitarlicitarska srca
A hand-painted honey biscuit given as a gift at weddings and on Valentine's DayCraft · Sweets given and shared
🇲🇳 Mongolia and 5 moreThroat singing
Several deep, guttural singing styles, each named and kept by its own peoplePerformance
🇸🇾 Aleppo, SyriaQudud Halabiyaقدود حلبية
Syrian songs of love and longing, shaped in Aleppo and set to old melodiesPerformance
🇦🇹 Vienna, AustriaViennese coffee house cultureWiener Kaffeehauskultur
A Viennese social ritual where patrons linger for hours with a single coffee and newspapers.Etiquette · Tea-time and snacking customs
🇦🇹 Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria and 2 moreSilent NightStille Nacht, heilige Nacht
A Christmas carol composed in Austria in 1818, now sung worldwide as a symbol of peace.Performance
🇵🇹 Lisbon, PortugalFado
Portugal's song of fate and longing, sung in Lisbon and CoimbraPerformance
🇵🇸 Bethlehem, PalestineTatreezتَطْرِيز
Palestinian cross-stitch embroidery, stitched onto dresses and read for its regionCraft
🇪🇪 EstoniaSeto leeloleelo
Polyphonic folk singing of the Setos, led by women in traditional dressPerformance
🇵🇾 Paraguay and 3 moreTereré
Paraguay's cold yerba mate drink, passed around in one cup with a metal strawTable custom · Tea, coffee and drinking ceremonies
🇬🇪 Georgia and 2 moreKvevriქვევრი
A buried clay jar, and the Georgian way of making wine inside itCraft
🇷🇺 Russia and 1 moreTuvan throat singing
A style of singing from Tuva where one voice sounds a drone and a melody at oncePerformance
🇲🇦 Tangier, MoroccoNegafaنڭافة (Arabic); ⵏⴳⴰⴼⴰ (Tamazight)
The woman who dresses a bride and guards the customs of a Moroccan weddingRite of passage
🇯🇵 JapanNōgaku能楽
A traditional Japanese theater form combining the lyric drama noh and the comic interludes kyōgen.Performance
🇰🇷 Jindo Island, South KoreaNamdo Field Songs남도 들노래
Farmers' choral work songs from South Jeolla, sung through the rice field yearPerformance
🇺🇦 Dnipro, UkraineCossack songs of the Dnipropetrovsk RegionКозацькі пісні Дніпропетровщини
Folk songs made by Cossacks, still sung in villages of the Dnipropetrovsk regionPerformance
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Kvevri: Levan Totosashvili, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Lacemaking in Croatia: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0 hr, source
- Castell: Pcm, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Haenyeo: Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Tuvan throat singing: Johanna Kovitz, Public domain, source
- Waitangi Day: Ryan762 ( talk ), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Negafa: Amine.elbahij, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Flamenco: John Singer Sargent, Public domain, source
- Cueca: Manuel Antonio Caro, Public domain, source
- Klapa: Albin Olsson, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Gadaa: YHANNES BULTIE TADESSE, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Aleppo soap: Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Pōwhiri: Governor General of New Zealand, CC BY 4.0, source
- Cantu a tenore: Sardegnabella, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Cossack songs of the Dnipropetrovsk Region: Юрій Булка, CC BY 4.0, source
- Kolo: Sasa.mazinjanin, Public domain, source
- Supra: Public domain Public domain false false This work is in the public dom, Public domain, source
- Khachkar: Arantz, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Licitar: Seanpu1, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Throat singing: Bill Loewy, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Qudud Halabiya: Thorsten Krienke, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Viennese coffee house culture: Photo: Andreas Praefcke, CC BY 3.0, source
- Silent Night: Franz Xaver Gruber (1787–1863), Public domain, source
- Fado: Pedro Simões, CC BY 2.0, source
- Seto leelo: Ave Maria Mõistlik, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Tatreez: Ma'moun Othman, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Tereré: Genialnico, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Nōgaku: Daderot, CC0, source